Quotes About Individuals

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.