Quotes About Individual

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at light speed.

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

In Montana, no one, including out-of-state corporate executives, has been excluded from spending money - or 'speaking' - in our elections. Any individual can contribute. All we require is that they use their own money, not corporate money that belongs to shareholders, and that they disclose who they are.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

The idea of a private life has been eroded in the sphere of politics.

I think one of the basest of all things is fear. Fear erodes the individual. Fear erodes the nation, the spine of the nation.

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.

I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal.

The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.

There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's mechanics. And you can't look at his genes. It should come from the individual and the pitching coach and the manager.

I have filed multiple defamations where my wife's name is mentioned relating to any of my personal battles. It's incorrect and the media needs to realize they can't scandalize and spoil names every time just because an individual is married to a celebrity.

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.