Quotes About Individuals

Our view, which we have found confirmed by long practice, is that the correct tactics in propaganda are not to entice away a few individuals and local groups here and there from one's opponent, but to work on the great mass, which is not yet taking part in the movement. A single individual whom one has oneself reared from the raw is worth more than ten Lassallean turncoats...

The highest point reached by contemplative materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is contemplation of single individuals and of civil society. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

The Good Book is the result of massive simulations of whole societies—what happens when billions of individual people follow various codes of conduct. It's simple: if most people use the rules in the Book most of the time, a pretty much utopian society emerges spontaneously on the macro level.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

It is comparing apples and oranges to refer to the love that the Savior expressed for all mankind, for every person, for every man and woman and child, with the doctrine related to marriage.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

There are no perfect men of course, but some are more perfect than others, and we can use all of those we can get.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.