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Quotes About Individual

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
~ Wayne Dyer
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
~ Stanley Schmidt
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
~ Natan Sharansky
The continued existence of society depends upon private property.
~ Ludwig von Mises
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
~ Theodor Adorno
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
~ Penn Jillette
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
~ James Hillman
Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.
~ Bernhard Goetz
The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.
~ William Torrey Harris
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
~ Machado de Assis
Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.
~ Clare Oliver
The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
~ D. H. Lawrence