Quotes About Individual

I wanted to become an artist, as I believed them to be, an individual willing to deal in the complexities of truth. I was most successful. I ended in silence, in darkness, sitting still, a maker of objects that imitate my predilection.

Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone. Crowds came for this reason above all others. They were there to be a crowd.

Forse in quella metropoli la folla era davvero essenziale all'individuo, perché senza di essa non c'era nulla contro cui rivolgere la propria rabbia, mancava l'eco del proprio dolore, si dissolveva ogni prova concreta dell'esistenza di persone ancora più sole al mondo.

Because we are all designers in the sense that all of us deliberately design our lives, our rooms, and the way we do things.

The present goal of the individual in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.

the individual, there is no such thing as a good market or a bad market, only whether or not he or she has a good or a bad deal.

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist.

Angels' assignments may be "very grand and have significance for the whole world," but more often, their assignments are private and personal

But do you really think," he said, concerned, "that one can call psychology a science?" "Certainly. What else is it?" "But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

technique is an individually acquired and socially secured way of doing something; a science is a way of understanding how to do it in order to do it better.

But they drained wetlands and cleared dry land for their townships, which were individual and meticulously planned developments.

but every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories.

an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness.

Marxists believe culture and all its ideas are a result of economic conditions, intersectionalists believe group identity is paramount, and both views discard the individual as irrelevant.

Every day affords individual people moments when they can shake off everything that is false and can view things from their perspective.

Wallace Stegner was a man who lived under the obligation of trying his best to be a "good man," and his writing was part and parcel of that effort. For him, the individual, insofar as his or her capabilities allow, must not only take charge of his or her own destiny, but take on the responsibility of contributing to the welfare of others in family, community and society.

Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin.

What is needed, then, is continuous agitation produced artificially even when nothing in the events of the day justifies or arouses excitement. Therefore, continuing propaganda must slowly create a climate first, and then prevent the individual from noticing a particular propaganda operation in contrast to ordinary daily events.