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Quotes About Individual

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
~ Lysander Spooner
We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.
~ Narendra Modi
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.
~ Noam Chomsky
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
~ Peter McWilliams
The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.
~ Rick Warren
Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.
~ Samuel Johnson
Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.
~ Shari Arison
The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
~ Tiffany Madison
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
~ Brian Chesky
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
~ Thomas Frank
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
~ Herbert Spencer
Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?
~ Graham Greene
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".
~ Ayn Rand
God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
~ Samuel Johnson
The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!
~ Bill Watterson
Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.
~ Shawn Achor
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
~ William H. Douglas
Life is the sum or product of a bunch of individual moments if you can't enjoy moments then how do you expect to enjoy life?
~ Matthew Donnelly
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
~ Hippocrates