Quotes About Individual

This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution. When we study the narrative of plants such as wheat and maize, maybe the purely evolutionary perspective makes sense. Yet in the case of animals such as cattle, sheep and Sapiens, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, we have to consider how evolutionary success translates into individual experience.

The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history.

The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history. There

Yet in the case of animals such as cattle, sheep and Sapiens, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, we have to consider how evolutionary success translates into individual experience. In the following chapters we will see time and again how a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.

Unfortunately, the evolutionary perspective is an incomplete measure of success. It judges everything by the criteria of survival and reproduction, with no regard for individual suffering and happiness.

Anyone who has read a novel by Charles Dickens knows that the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe gave priority to individual freedom even if it meant throwing insolvent poor families in prison and giving orphans little choice but to join schools for pickpockets. Anyone who has read a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn knows how Communism's egalitarian ideal produced brutal tyrannies that tried to control every aspect of daily life.

The subjective is something that exists depending on the consciousness and beliefs of a single individual. It disappears or changes if that particular individual changes his or her beliefs.

Does the data about my DNA, my brain, and my life belong to me, to the government, to a corporation, or to the human collective?

The individual will not be crushed by Big Brother; it will disintegrate from within.

Esta discrepancia entre éxito evolutivo y sufrimiento individual es quizá la lección más importante que podemos extraer de la revolución agrícola. Cuando

Sousa Mendes, armed with little more than a rubber stamp, was responsible for the largest rescue operation by a single individual during the Holocaust.

This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution

Atman is the eternal essence or soul of the entire universe, as well as of every individual and every phenomenon.

A falta de las almas eternas y de un Dios Creador, a los liberales les resulta embarazosamente difícil explicar qué es lo que tiene de tan especial el sapiens individual.

The discrepancy between evolutionary succes and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution.

The book is a body and your mind will mold to its individual curves much in the way it will to any other lover-- at least, until it buckles beyond us.

Privilege theory typically only sees social structures as the sum of their individual parts, their individual consciences. At its base level, it provides you with the fantasy of intervention and action; it offers you criticism without critique . For the proponents of privilege theory, social change follows the gradual and predictable path of reform.

Islam has no religious establishment -- no popes, no bishops -- that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.

Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, because each individual has the right to decide about himself, and for collective decision making in society, all individual has the right to provide their input in it, after that majorities' rule and minorities' rights is the key to move forward, otherwise its destruction of society.

Each thinking mind is a political mind."

Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology."

People wealth consists upon their freedom, individual resources and good social life.

What's good for individual could be bad for society but what's good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual."

We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual -- in the name of man.