Quotes About Individual

For a vivid and entertaining description of the lack of protection for the individual against incursion of his liberty by his "protectors," see H.L. Mencken, "The Nature of Liberty," in Prejudices: A Selection (New York: Vintage Books, 1958), pp. 138–43.

If "we are the government," then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also "voluntary" on the part of the individual concerned.

we are the government," then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also "voluntary" on the part of the individual concerned.

The best type of instruction is individual instruction. A course where one teacher instructs one pupil is clearly by far the best type of course. It is only under such conditions that human potentialities can develop to their greatest degree. It is clear that the formal school, characterized by classes in which one teacher instructs many children, is an immensely inferior system. Since each child differs from the other in interest and ability, and the teacher can only teach one thing at a time.

La Libertad es el derecho natural, para todo individuo, de disponer de si mismo y de lo que ha adquirido ya sea por medio de la transformación, intercambio o la donación. La Libertad y el derecho a la propiedad son, pues, indisociables. Todo atentado a la propiedad es un atentado a la libertad .

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

According to the rule, whatever is left out of the conscious adaptation to the regnant culture of the individual person is relegated to the unconscious and will collect around the structure that Jung named anima/us. For an extremely effeminate man the inner attitude (anima) will be masculine in quality because this is what has been left out of the persona adaptation.

Desires may be different from individual to individual, but the end and the destinations are always the same for the majority of people seeking fame.

Doubt is the mother of fear. The remedy is to be an upright individual whenever the time comes to act.

Emotions, or rather feelings, cannot be felt by an individual without the presence of the mind.

Fraud doesn't benefit anyone except the individual who is involved, but it hurts many innocent souls and leaves them devastated for a lifetime.

Hitler believed in the Aryan ideology, but he wanted the betterment of the whole community and not that of an individual. Which terms contradict each other in themselves.

No one in any generation has ever identified himself intellectually with the masses. Therefore, it seems like an abstract word that does not exist or we all pretend to be smarter than it looks.

On an individual level, we have nothing in common except to put our self-interest before anything else.

Politics is similar to love. This is to say that, the individual is constantly seeking for an ideal partner who will be there during the times of need.

The greatest individual will aim to be both the perfectionist, the dreamer, the visionary, and all of the greatest attributes known to man. Neither avoiding nor despising any of them.

The judge can no longer accuse, but only says what he thinks is good for the individual, after considering all the alternatives.

There is no sane individual who is addicted to suffering, unless you have been brainwashed since childhood.

True justice consists in giving each individual what he deserves according to his abilities.

We treat love as possession. But in reality, no one can own another individual.

The end result may be trains that run on time (although I doubt it), but the cost is to our Constitution and the individual liberty it protects.

spirituality is a private hobby, an upmarket version of daydreaming for those who like that kind of thing.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

The brain was the single thing that remained sacred among the Psy. To rewire that would equal the erasure of the individual, making the PsyNet a true hive mind.