Quotes About Individual

The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

The political is personal.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

Support can come from many, but growth is only achieved by the individual.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Believe in yourself. Believe in your own potential for greatness. Believe that you can change the world. It is something that is within each of us. Believe in the Power of One

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.