Quotes About Individual

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

What we say of a thing that has just come in fashion And that which we do with the dead, Is the name of the honestest man in the nation: What more of a man can be said?

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

I am not doing it just for the money or for you.I am doing it for me.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.