Quotes About Individual

I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.

Christ surrendered the secret of Himself to each one of us when He gave us His Body. In Holy Communion this surrender of the secret of Himself goes on. "With desire," He said, "have I desired this hour." The hour when He was to consecrate bread, in order that not only to the whole race would He give His Spirit, but to each individual, the gift of Himself.

With this lesson in mind, Mullainathan and Shafir insist that certain characteristics that we attribute to individual personality (lack of motivation, inability to focus) may actually be a problem of limited bandwidth. The problem is scarcity, not the person.

If you drive a car, I will the tax the street,If you try to sit, I will tax your seat,If you get too cold, I will tax the heat,If you take a walk, I will tax your feet.

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration but the honing is uniform.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

There is always some limit which the individual accepts. He identifies this limit with himself. Horror seizes him at the thought that this limit may cease to be. But we are wrong to take this limit and the individual's acceptance of it seriously. The limit is only there to be overreached. Fear and horror are not the real and final reaction; on the contrary, they are a temptation to overstep the bounds.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

La définition de la maladie demande comme point de départ la notion d'être individuel . La maladie apparaît lorsque l'organisme est modifié de telle façon qu'il en vient à des réactions catastrophiques dans le milieu qui lui est propre.

As one chooses between the country and the human being, the country becomes much more wonderful.

The Invitation of Love If we want to set the relationship between efficiency and love in its rightful order, we must go beyond laws and proclamations. If we desire a more loving society, we individual persons must return to the deepest common sense of our hearts; we must claim love as our true treasure. Then comes the difficult part: we must try to live according to our desire in the moment-by-moment experiences of our lives.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.