Quotes About Individual

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

Man, not men, is the most important consideration.