Quotes About Individual

I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of the world.

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

Movies are very subjective.

What a song is is a subjective thing. There's no one real definition for it.

Love is very subjective.

Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.

For me, luxury is subjective.

Nutrition advice is, quite frankly, subjective.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

In the South, we assume that one will have substance, be polite, be kind, be nice, but that person also needs to present himself/herself to the world with an individual unique well-developed style that identifies them as special.

The central genius of the American Constitution lies in its use of structure to protect individual liberty. It does not rely solely, or even primarily, on grants of substantive rights.

You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person

Dead Rabbit" became the standard phrase by which city residents described any scandalously riotous individual or group. But there seems to be no justification for referring to the Bowery Boys' adversaries by this name.32

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

Il n'est pas sûr, enfin, qu'en voulant donner une sanction sociale à la dignité, Améry ne l'ait pas confondue avec ce qu'on appellerait plutôt l'honneur : celui-ci consiste bien en une forme de reconnaissance accordée par la société en fonction de ses codes ; celle-là, en revanche, l'individu isolé peut aussi l'éprouver.

On voit que choisir la mort a ici une tout autre signification que dans les vertus héroïques. Là-bas, la mort finit par devenir une valeur et un but, car elle incarne l'absolu mieux que la vie. Ici, elle est moyen et non fin ; elle est l'ultime recours de l'individu désirant affirmer sa dignité.