Quotes About Individual

I always find it hard to admit that anything done collectively can possibly be sincere, since the only truly sentient being is the individual).

Es necesario cierto coraje intelectual para que un individuo reconozca valerosamente que no pasa de ser un harapo humano, aborto superviviente, loco todavía fuera de las fronteras de la internabilidad;

free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

It is when the individual's faith is weak, not strong, that he will be afraid of an honest fictional representation of life; and when there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the supernatural is apt gradually to be lost.

Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise Blood

Evil is more than the sum of individual misdeeds. Evil has a life of its own. It is not enough to stand aside from it. If it is not actively resisted, it sweeps all before it. Part of a Christian's calling is to resist evil, and in doing so, to endure to the end.

My father's a character.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

I believe that the future is about having a whole bunch of A.I., not one A.I. We're all going to have our own personal A.I. We'll have A.I. for many fields of medicine, for many fields of manufacturing.

Race drivers are fiercely competitive animals, and there is often a conflict between what is right for the team and what is right for the individual.

I don't fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

But I think sometimes, coaching less is better. That's the art of coaching, figuring out with each kid what is the right way to approach it?

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script, and it's very linear. There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script ,and then you cut that, and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.

I'm so not a financial person.

I'm such a first-person writer.

There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.

Here you get to play one on one more, individual basketball. I think that fits me better than in Europe. You have harder, different double teams and everybody helps, but in the NBA they let you play one on one, so I think that will fit me better.

While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.

I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.'