Quotes About Individual

Henry Wallace: "The idea of freedom . . . is derived from the Bible with its extraordinary emphasis on the dignity of the individual. Democracy is the only true political expression of Christianity."39 And Christianity is the only genuine source and sustainer of democracy

I guess it's what you'd call a metaphor: atomic energy has made America into a superpower, so maybe it could do the same for individual citizens – that's basically the point we're hoping you can get across for us.

greatness is not transmitted through the generations. Every man ultimately makes or destroys his own legacy.

There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal.

Individual natural human rights are considered one of the great contributions of the glorious Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, so the professor thought he was on safe ground in asking such a thing of the miserable Middle Ages. Well, what do you know; a few years later, medievalist Brian Tierney's The Idea of Natural Rights traced this concept back to medieval philosophers, including St. Thomas Aquinas.

Our nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to protecting the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of the individual, not of the collective or groups of special interests. The miracle of the Constitution is the simple genius of limited government and its singular devotion to protecting individual liberty.

Nevertheless, it is the free grace of the resurrected One that now also goes after the individual, overcomes the doubter, and creates in him the Easter faith.

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept,[10] but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

Monasticism was represented as an individual achievement which the mass of the laity could not be expected to emulate. By thus limiting the application of the commandments of Jesus to a restricted group of specialists

The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.

Even the most personal prayer no longer belongs to the individual, but to the church that gave birth to this person and through which this individual lives.

love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.

The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.

No man need curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

Ja smatram da postoje svi razlozi za život, ali ne uvek, ne i za svakoga. Ponekad nema smisla živeti samo života radi. Ali o tome ne možemo ubedljivo razgovarati. Ni sporiti. Sva su ta velika pitanja života sasvim li?na stvar.

But perfectly personal advertising is a dream of advertisers, not of customers.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn't exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual's curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.