Quotes About Individual

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.