Quotes About Individuals

I've never met a vegetarian that I liked, curiously. You might have been the exception, of course Solo

rather, it recognizes that social structures influence the thoughts, decisions, and actions of individuals (Sibeon 2004). The theoretical model presented here is strongly influenced by Weber and Bourdieu.

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

As individuals steadily lose degrees of privacy, so too do corporations and states.

Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a Death of a Thousand Cuts. In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the part of individuals, both slowly and swiftly taking the place of heirarchy and history.

Government has important work to do, but in the task of helping society remain intact, much work takes place in the families, neighborhoods, churches, temples, schools, and voluntary groups that make communities good, healthy places to live. Individual

Perhaps the most that can be said is that HCM had become a prisoner of his own creation, a fly in amber, unable in his state of declining influence to escape the inexorable logic of a system that sacrificed the fate of individuals to the higher morality of the master plan.

These experiences we can only find in individuals for whom religion exists not as a dull habit, but as an acute fever rather. But

Surely the Germans must be the ugliest-looking people in Europe, individually. Not a decent-looking woman in the whole Linden. Their awful clothes probably contribute to one's impression.

Your city institutions... Talking and talking of individuals... but crushing them in layers and hierarchies... until their choices might be between three kinds of squalor.

For individuals' behavior to change, you've got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds.

How can we make people care about our ideas? We get them to take off their Analytical Hats. We create empathy for specific individuals. We show how our ideas are associated with things that people already care about. We appeal to their self-interest, but we also appeal to their identities—not only to the people they are right now but also to the people they would like to be

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients and that is exactly where it should be.

The rise of unretirement is good news for the economy's vitality, the material well-being of individuals in life's third stage, and for shoring up the financial health of the social safety net.

This is a work of nonfiction. I have rendered the events faithfully and truthfully just as I have recalled them. Some names and descriptions of individuals have been changed in order to respect their privacy. To anyone whose name I did not

Cómo crearon los jesuitas la compañía religiosa de más éxito en la historia? ¿Y cómo llegan los individuos a ser líderes hoy? Conociéndose a sí mismos. Innovando para amoldarse a un mundo cambiante. Amando al prójimo. Apuntando muy alto y más lejos.

The author contrasts leadership styles he describes as wholesale and retail. The whole sale leader rallies groups to an overriding vision, and to him individuals are interchangeable. The retail leader knows everyone's details and uses personal touches to motivate.

When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.

Part of the irony of religion's role is that in strengthening micro bonds between individuals, religion contributes to within-group homogeneity, heightens isolation from different groups, and reduces the opportunity for the formation of macro bonds—bonds between groups—that serve to integrate a society.

Le] couple mère-enfant ne désigne pas une association d'individus mais essentiellement un système de rôles et d'obligations : une formation sociale. De surcroît cette formation sociale est le résultat empirique - en termes d'associations d'individus physiques - d'une structure d'exploitation : le système politique patriarcal.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

the role played by such individuals within the military trial system of the 1940s was as denouncers rather than witnesses – an important distinction.