Quotes About Individuals

What I know about the Bible is this: Those whom God helped to ascend to a higher place were all flawed individuals, except for

la foi, il ne s'agit jamais d'une abstraction, mais d'individus vivants que l'on connaît personnellement. Manquer à ce souci-là n'est pas une faute qui fait encourir le blâme ; mais c'est une rupture tacite de contrat. C'est ce qu'illustre une scène racontée par

certidumbres ideológicas siempre han sabido dominar las contingencias individuales.

Ce que l'extrême et l'ordinaire ont également en commun, c'est que, ici comme là, la majorité des individus opte pour les valeurs vitales, et quelques-uns seulement choisissent l'autre voie. Ou peut-être : la plupart du temps, chaque individu opte pour les valeurs vitales ; mais n'ignore pas pour autant les réactions morales.

It is no longer necessary to resort to the power of a state in order to inflict heavy losses on your enemy, since a few highly motivated individuals with even a minimum of financial resources are enough."Hostile Forces" have completely changed their appearance.

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

But we have turned that, what you call sexual activity, which is biological in its nature, into a pleasure movement.   There must be two, you know. I love somebody and somebody else loves me. Wherever there is division, there can't be love. We are trying to bridge this gap, which is horrible for us, which has no meaning, which is demanding something from us, with this fancy idea that there must be love between these two individuals.

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

I will explain in this book that vaccines are given not to protect individuals against disease but to protect communities against financial loss.)

The experiences people have in a large hotel do not constitute entire human destinies, full and completed. They are fragments merely, scraps, pieces. The people behind its doors may be unimportant or remarkable individuals. People on the way up or people on the way down the ladder of life. Prosperity and disaster may be separated by no more than the thickness of a wall.

The rights of children as individuals begin while yet the remain the fetus... I hold abortion to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

The task of an executive is not to change human beings. Rather, as the Bible tells us in the parable of the Talents, the task is to multiply performance capacity of the whole by putting to use whatever strength, whatever health, whatever aspiration there is in individuals.

The task of an executive is not to change human beings. Rather, as the Bible tells us in the parable of the talents, the task is to multiply the performance capacity of the whole by putting to use whatever strength, whatever health, whatever aspiration there is in individuals.

If my father could not abide Christianity, he had no objections to individual Christians.

The key is to focus on the details of individual lives. Kids imitate one another, their parents, and other adults, and both children and adults are taught by others. As children grow up they acquire cultural influences, skills, beliefs, and

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

Divine love is not humanity but neighbor, the concrete, unique individual. You can only ever love individuals, because only individuals ever exist. Classes and collections are abstract objects of thought, not concretely real things. We group people into groups, but real people are concrete individuals.

Organizations learn only through individuals who learn.

It cannot be stressed too much that team learning is a team skill. A group of talented individual learners will not necessarily produce a learning team, any more than a group of talented athletes will produce a great sports team. Learning teams learn how to learn together. If

THey were jeered and admired by both sides and were not shot at, for display and panoply were part of war, which was less war than ceremonial sport, a wild, fierce festival.... A day of war was dangerous and splendid, regardless of its outcome; it was a war of individuals and gallantry, quite innocent of tactics and cold slaughter. A single death--or two or three--was the end purpose of the war....