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Quotes About Individual

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.
~ Dalai Lama
The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.
~ Peace Pilgrim
To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
~ James Thurber
In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.
~ Harry Woodburn Chase
Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.
~ William H. Gates, Sr.
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
~ Aldous Huxley
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
~ Arthur Koestler
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
~ Samuel Smiles
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.
~ George Santayana
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.
~ Ben Carson
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
~ Phillips Brooks
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.
~ Jacques Barzun
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
~ John Adams
No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.
~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
~ William Rounseville Alger
Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
~ Ludwig von Mises
That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Omens don't influence the eradication of a evil from a society. it's all upto you when YOU want.
~ M.H. Rakib
It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.
~ Ron Lewis
A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
~ Eileen Gray
Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can come about when the material and spiritual realms are reconciled.
~ Fethullah Gulen
So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.
~ Howard G. Hendricks