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Quotes About Individual

Fear took each of us differently.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The coming wave of automation will move way beyond the factory or public infrastructure and into our very biological processes such as aging and even giving birth. Used as we are to the gradual societal shifts brought about by previous change waves, often allowing decades to adjust and respond, I ask if we as a tribe are ready to abdicate our human sovereignty to the faceless forces of technology? Are you ready for the biggest loss of free will and individual human control in history?
~ Gerd Leonhard
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.
~ Germaine Greer
Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them and their owners. Whether the curves imposed are the ebullient arabesques of the tit-queen or the attenuated coils of art nouveau, they are deformations of the dynamic, individual body, and limitations of the possibilities of being female.
~ Germaine Greer
Whatever institutions or forms of government have been devised through the ages, the idea of liberty has remained constant: the right of each man to consult his conscience without reference to authorities or majorities, custom or opinion.
~ Gertrude Himmelfarb
A sociedade de consumo é programada do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
A sociedade de consumo é programação do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.
~ Gilles Lipovetsky
La luna è di tutti e ognuno di noi ha il diritto di ululare
~ Giorgio Faletti
Câte vieÅ£i sunt într-o via??, câÅ£i oameni într-un om.
~ Giovanni Papini
no man's actions can be judged in isolation from the external elements that shape and influence his life.
~ Gitta Sereny
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
~ Glenn Beck
The Right to Privacy," arguing that robbing someone of their privacy was a crime of a deeply different nature than the theft of a material belonging.
~ Glenn Greenwald
is in the realm of privacy where creativity, dissent, and challenges to orthodoxy germinate. A society in which everyone knows they can be watched by the state—where the private realm is effectively eliminated—is one in which those attributes are lost, at both the societal and the individual level.
~ Glenn Greenwald
mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or herself to think only in line with what is expected and demanded.
~ Glenn Greenwald
When my mother died I learned that grief can be a very private thing.
~ Glenn Meade
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
~ Gloria Steinem
Mrs. Banks: [singing] Though we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.
~ Glynis Johns
Everyone has to work out his own destiny. - Goethe
~ Goethe
When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Our individual testimonies of these truths are the basis of our faith. We must nurture them. We must cultivate them. We can never forsake them. We can never lay them aside. Without them we are nothing. With them we are everything.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
If we would individually and collectively resolve to stand for something, to lift our voices for truth and goodness and offer our supplications to our Eternal Father, those supplications would be heard, and the result would be remarkable.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
The Internet breaks a 500-year Latin American pattern of monopoly, monopoly of information, economics, social, religious power. It fundamentally gives power to the individual, which is a new development in Latin America. —FERNANDO ESPUELAS
~ Gordon G. Chang
CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for securing individual profit without individual responsibility.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
~ Ben Hecht