Quotes About Individual

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

The greatest danger to both society and the individual, we learn from Socrates, is the suspension of critical thought. Loved

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

A ficção pega numa história, ou num aspecto do todo, e pode narrar acontecimentos trágicos, potentes, individuais; mas é o todo que deveria ser contado: e o todo é inconcebível.

Does the difference matter? someone else asked. Does it matter whether the law seeks to protect you because you are an individual or because of the group of which you happen to be a member? That question floated around the room, and it has remained with me ever since.

These two distinct crimes, with their different emphases on the individual and the group, grew side by side, yet over time genocide emerged in the eyes of many as the crime of crimes, a hierarchy that left a suggestion that the killing of large numbers of people as individuals was somehow less terrible.

Despite their common origins, and the shared desire for an effective approach, Lauterpacht and Lemkin were sharply divided as to the solutions they proposed to a big question: How could the law help to prevent mass killing? Protect the individual, says Lauterpacht. Protect the group, says Lemkin.

This is difficult to comprehend when one pauses to consider the character of Christ. Admittedly there have been many false caricatures of this Person, but an unbiased look at His life quickly reveals an individual of enormous compassion and incredible integrity.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.

The first care of the rulers is to be education, of which an outline is drawn after the old Hellenic model, providing only for an improved religion and morality, and more simplicity in music and gymnastic, a manlier strain of poetry, and greater harmony of the individual and the State.

For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your [b]body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."13

Un montaggio è un lavoro che ognuno se lo deve studiare da sé, con la sua testa, e ancora meglio con le sue mani: Perché sa, le cose, a vederle da una poltrona oppuramente da un traliccio alto quaranta metri, fa differenza.

Why me? A selfish question. Perhaps the most selfish of questions. All burdens, even those as demented as the Apocalypse, must fall upon the shoulders of someone. Why not him?

For Dewey, the Great Community was the basic fact of history. The individual and the soul were invalid concepts, man was truly man, not as an individual, but as after Aristotle, in society and supremely in the State. Thus, for Dewey, true education mean not the development of the individual in terms of learning, but his socialization. Progressive education... educates the individual in terms of particular facts of the universe without reference to God, truth, or morality.

You are the weirdest girl ever." "Please. You live with Eve.

natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future.

I'm Odd but I'm not nuts.

Joel was an odd little man: five feet four, slightly chubby but not fat

The work and the work alone was what mattered and not the individual. (...) He found competition so distasteful that he even opposed school examinations and ranking, as well as all distinctions and honors. Not that he ignored the talent of others. He encouraged and advised those he considered gifted and was always disposed to aid anyone in a difficult situation and even to give his time, which was the greatest sacrifice he could make.

Well, it's very much for each person to experience alone," he said, and whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.

The problem in our time is that maturity is not high on the list of goals we offer the next generation. We stress happiness, success, and intelligence but not maturity. And that is too bad, both for society, which suffers when too many of its members are immature, and for the individual who wants to be happy. For happiness is not available to the immature. And one of the prominent characteristics of immaturity is seeing oneself primarily as a victim.