Quotes About Individual

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

A poet is the mocking-bird of the spiritual universe. In him are collected all the individual songs of all individual natures.

The condition of society is one of homogeneity and hyperindustrialism, so the individual perceptions of body and mind are not valued. Poetry is not the expression of the party line. It's that time at night, laying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

when you start telling a man he's got to do this, that or the other thing, you're coming pretty damned close to infringing on a citizen's rights.

Era disparate desejar permanecer nela, mas assaltava-me uma grande covardia, o receio de voltar a assumir responsabilidades, a certeza de que o meu trabalho de indivíduo solitário, na ditadura mal disfarçada por um congresso de sabujos, seria pouco mais ou menos inútil. Preferível o cativeiro manifesto ao outro, simulado, que nos ofereciam lá fora. A

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

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.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way

to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

I only write first editions.

Adherence to principles, and adherence to the individual, combine to make the Rebel Army an indivisible fist.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.

A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanaticism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions.

In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.

that the crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual, but that, from the point of view of feelings and of the acts these feelings provoke, the crowd may, according to circumstances, he better or worse than the individual. All depends on the nature of the suggestion to which the crowd is exposed.

Acquired or artificial prestige is much the most common. The mere fact that an individual occupies a certain position, possesses a certain fortune, or bears certain titles, endows him with prestige, however slight his own personal worth.

Personal interest is very rarely a powerful motive force with crowds, while it is almost the exclusive motive of the conduct of the isolated individual.

An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.