Quotes About Individual

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

The crowd is the crowd. You're gonna take them as an individual performer how you take them. The key is how do you learn from them. How do you use whatever is happening reaction-wise to get better.

But I do think I'm quite a selfish performer in the sense that I'm not one of those that's like 'Hey, come on everybody lets sing along' you know that kind of thing.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with ideas of things and will not admit that every individual thing has its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power of reasoning.

The order of battle used by the Roman army is very difficult to break through, since it allows every man to fight both individually and collectively; the effect is to offer a formation that can present a front in any direction, since the maniples that are nearest to the point where danger threatens wheels in order to meet it.

Sejak zaman kompeni, Aceh punya keberanian individu, Jawa punya keberanian kelompok. Beda sekali.

Lenyapnya perikemanusiaan dalam kegalauan sosial yang busuk, berarti pula tipisnya kepribadian, bukan saja sebagai bangsa, tetapi juga sebagai individu. Dan bangsa atau nasion yang begitu mudah menanggalkan perikemanusiaan dengan sendirinya mudah pula tersasar dalam perkembangan sejarah.

Tugas dokter Pribumi bukan saja menyembuhkan tubuh terluka dan menanggung sakit, juga jiwanya, juga hari depannya. Siapa akan melakukannya kalau bukan para terpelajar? Dan bukankah satu ciri manusia modern adalah juga kemenangan individu atas lingkungannya dengan prestasi individual? Individu-individu kuat sepatutnya bergabung, mengangkat sebangsanya yang lemah, memberinya lampu pada kegelapan dan memberi mata yang buta.

Revolusi atau perjuangan apa saja bisa lahir dan mencapai keagungannya kalau setiap pribadi tampil berani

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. It's so hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact is, bureaucracies are a problem around the world.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.

The (24 Carat) level of the quality of dealing with the ideas rather than events remains an interesting question for future research, as does the question of how analogical reasoning can be applied to skyrocket individual decision making.

When politics and home life have become one and the same, when economic problems have been solved in such a way that individual and collective interests are identical – all constraints having disappeared – it is evident that we will be in a state of total liverty or anarchy.

Every one preaches for his own saint.

If you wish, like us, that the entire liberty of the individual and, consequently, his life be respected, you are necessarily brought to repudiate the government of man by man, whatever shape it assumes; you are forced to accept the principles of Anarchy that you have spurned so long. You must then search with us the forms of society that can best realize that ideal and put an end to all the violence that rouses your indignation.

We can already catch glimpses of a world in which the bonds which bind the individual are no longer laws, but social habits - the result of the need felt by each one of us to seek the support, the co-operation, the sympathy of his neighbours.

For the first few years after such a law was passed there might occasionally be undignified scenes, but in Britain individual liberty is so often curtailed for the common good. Order would soon prevail.

All my movies are achingly personal.

They experience new-born hope that humans have indeed a destiny of individual significance complementary to the integrity of other individuals.