Quotes About Individual

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference!

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

The shift in thought frequency of a single individual has enough energy to light up the world's lighthouses—we hold that much power within us.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

Seaford goes so far as to suggest that the money economy influenced Platonic and Aristotelian notions of the individual.

One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

The journey must be taken in individual moments. Enjoy the ride for the ride.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.