Quotes About Individual

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Viešoji nuomon? - ne toks baisus tironas kaip savoji. Tai, k? žmogus galvoja apie save, kaip tik ir lemia arba grei?iau rodo jo likim?.

Again, I sometimes say to myself, When many millions of men, without heat, without ill will, without personal feelings of any kind, demand of you a few shillings only, without the possibility, such is their constitution, of retracting or altering their present demand, and without the possibility, on your side, of appeal to any other millions, why expose yourself to this overwhelming brute force?

Jamais il n'y aura d'État vraiment libre et éclairé, tant que l'État n'en viendra pas à reconnaître à l'individu un pouvoir supérieur et indépendant d'où découlerait tout le pouvoir et l'autorité d'un gouvernement prêt à traiter l'individu en conséquence.

L'opinione pubblica è un tiranno assai debole, paragonata alla nostra opinione personale. Ciò che determina o piuttosto indica il fato di un uomo è l'opinione che egli ha di se stesso.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?

There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the best men, as the Algonquins called them. We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I cannot answer the question, 'Who am I?' except in terms of some sort of statement of the plans and purposes of my life," said Josiah Royce seventy years ago in The Philosophy of Loyalty. "I should say that a person, an individual self, may be defined as a human life lived according to a plan . . .

Los economistas clásicos, al refutar los errores de su tiempo, mostraron que la política del ahorro, orientada en interés del individuo, sirve al propio tiempo el de la comunidad. Indicaban que el ahorrador consciente, al preocuparse de su propio futuro, no perjudicaba, sino que ayudaba a la sociedad.

Half the thinking process, as pointed out, depends on the occurrence of suggestions. The occurrence of suggestions depends on how ideas are associated in a man's mind.This depends to some extent on the education and the whole past life and environment of the individual

It all left her, as she wandered off, with the strangest of impressions – the sense, forced upon her as never yet, of an appeal, a positive confidence, from the four pairs of eyes, that was deeper than any negation and that seemed to speak on the part of each for some relation to be contrived by her, a relation with herself, which would spare the individual the danger, the actual present strain, of the relation with the others. They

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.

There are those of poor spirit and there are those of great spirit. None are without it but the flame flickers pretty low in some cases. The majority of people seem to be nothing but a little flickering flame. You know that when you match them against an individual who is all fire, all radiance. Those in whom the flame of the spirit runs high are extraordinary examples of human beings.

If there be any solution of life's problems for the mass of mankind, in this biological continuum which we have entered upon, there is certainly little hope of any for the individual, i.e, the artist. For him the problem is not how to identify himself with the mass about, for in that lies his real death, but how to fecundate the masses by his dying.

Every individual was put on this Earth for a PURPOSE! Every person was put here to become a success. Every

by coaching individual family members to change themselves in the context of their nuclear and parental family systems (McGoldrick

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

At this stage, the question is no longer: how can the individual satisfy his own needs without hurting others, but rather: how can he satisfy his needs without hurting himself, without reproducing, through his aspirations and satisfactions, his dependence on an exploitative apparatus which, in satisfying his needs, perpetuates his servitude? The

Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.

Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.