Quotes About Individual

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

Men make their own fates - it's personal, not a matter for debate.

Man is basically an individual molecule of the God-Force.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.