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Quotes About Individual

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.
~ Walter E. Williams
A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
~ William Saroyan
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
~ Gregory Bateson
Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.
~ Ludwig Lewisohn
Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
~ Richard Matheson
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
~ Shana Alexander
The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man
~ William Graham Sumner
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
~ H. G. Wells
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
~ Walter Lippmann
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.
~ Adolf Hitler
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
~ David O. McKay
We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.
~ John Adams
Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
~ Joseph Butler
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.
~ William O. Douglas
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
~ William Winwood Reade
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
~ Karl Marx
Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
~ Adolphe Thiers
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
~ Alexander Pope
It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.
~ C. S. Lewis
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
~ Robert M. Lindner
Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
~ Ronald Knox