Quotes About Individual

The basis of the system is maximum individual freedom and mutual trust between governors and governed. The UN is an authoritarian system, assuming ill intentions of all and holding the threat of punitive action as a means of control.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had to express his innermost convictions, the profound meaning he ascribed to life, he could probably have cited nothing more than a slight disappointment.

An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime

O atmosfer? de catastrof? global? face înrtotdeauna mai suportabile catastrofele individuale, acesta e motivul pentru care, negreÈ™it, sunt atât de rare sinuciderile în vreme de r?zboi.

De fait, se demandait-il, comment une société pourrait-elle subsister sans religion? Déjà, dans le cas d'un individu, ça paraissait difficile. Pendant plusieurs jours, il contempla le radiateur situé à gauche de son lit. En saison les cannelures se remplissaient d'eau chaude, c'était un mécanisme utile et ingénieux; mais combien de temps la société occidentale pourrait-elle subsister sans une religion quelconque?

Jos hävittää moraalisuuden omasta persoonastaan, se on sama kuin karkoittaisi maailmasta moraalin, siinä määrin kuin se on itsestä kiinni.

En todo caso, a cualquier observador imparcial le resulta evidente que el individuo humano no puede ser feliz, que no ha sido concebido en absoluto para la felicidad, y que su único destino posible es propagar la desgracia a su alrededor, haciendo que la vida de los demás sea tan intolerable como la suya propia; y por lo general, sus primeras víctimas son sus padres.

We reject liberal ideology because it's incapable of furnishing meaning, a way to reconcile the individual with his fellow man in a community that one could qualify as human.

No creo equivocarme al comparar el sueño con el amor; no creo engañarme al comparar el amor con una especie de ensueño de dos, cierto que junto con instantes de ensueño individual, de pequeños juegos de conjunciones y cruces de caminos, pero que permiten, con todo, transformar nuestra existencia terrenal en un momento soportable, que incluso es, en verdad, el único medio de soportarla.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Barton, It's a Good Old World

Your absolute faith and trust in someone, has the potential of turning a Satan into Saint. Try it always, if it doesn't work remember - an individual may let you down but mother nature will never. Have faith, don't compromise, MickeyMize. Share this for a faithful world.

Let every man mind his own business.

It is true that life has no meaning, if by that we mean a supreme goal built into the fabric of nature and human experience, a goal that is valid for every individual. But it does not follow that life cannot be given meaning.

Because optimal experience depends on the ability to control what happens in consciousness moment by moment, each person has to achieve it on the basis of his own individual efforts and creativity.

A starting point would be to say that one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals. A second essential criterion would specify that these experiences should lead to the growth of the self on an individual level, by allowing as many people as possible to develop increasingly complex skills.

Opuesto a ellos está el Yo, que se ocupa de las necesidades genuinas de la persona relacionadas con su entorno concreto.

As Freud and many others before and after him have noted, civilization is built on the repression of individual desires.

joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

In any case, an individual can experience only so much. Therefore, the information we allow into consciousness becomes extremely important; it is, in fact, what determines the content and the quality of life.