Quotes About Individual

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced during my tenure on the bench.

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.

When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.

America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it is actually one of the principal means by which an individual and a group discovers or establishes his or its identity.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.

I have worked for Tesco and am grateful to them but in principle I believe in individual shops.

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own.

It's certainly important for people to have a sense of privacy.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

I'm a private kind of person.