Quotes About Individuals

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Stop looking for that perfect person, look at the positive sides of who you know and you wil find unexpected perfection.

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

If man were to live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, there would be no occasion for any other laws, than the law of nature, and the law of God. Neither could any other law possibly exist; for a law always supposes some superior who is to make it; and in a state of nature we are all equal, without any other superior but him who is the author of our being.

The principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature.

This is the contrary of the Darwin that we mainly receive from the Darwinists. The survival of the fittest is supposed to represent the conflict of sovereign individuals, among which the strongest wins and so gets to go on to the next round of the conflict. But in Darwin's day--at least when he was writing 'The Voyage of the Beagle'--'fittest' did not mean strongest. It meant the one that fit best into the network of mutual need

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

The wonder of markets is that they reconcile the choices of myriad individuals.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order

Antes de crear el mundo, Dios conocía todos los mundos lógicamente posibles que podía crear, poblados por todos los individuos lógicamente posibles que podía crear

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

many individuals going beyond the 'normal' limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.

The meritocracy defines "community" as a mass of talented individuals competing with one another.

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.

most important distinction in the investment world does not separate individuals and institutions; the most important distinction divides those investors with the ability to make high quality active management decisions from those investors without active management expertise. Few institutions and even fewer individuals exhibit the ability and commit the resources to produce risk-adjusted excess returns.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

If taxes represent our absolute debt to the society that created us, then the first step toward creating real money comes when we start calculating much more specific debts to society, systems of fines, fees, and penalties, or even debts we owe to specific individuals who we have wronged in some way, and thus to whom we stand in a relation of "sin" or

Modern states are democratic, or at least it's generally felt they really should be. yet democracy, in modern states, is conceived very differently to, say, the workings of an assembly in an ancient city, which collectively deliberated on common problems. Rather, democracy as we have come to know it is effectively a game of winners and losers played out among larger-than-life individuals, with the rest of us reduced largely to onlookers.

A very material question has been started concerning ABSTRACT or GENERAL ideas, WHETHER THEY BE GENERAL OR PARTICULAR IN THE MIND'S CONCEPTION OF THEM. A great philosopher [Dr. Berkeley.] has disputed the received opinion in this particular, and has asserted, that all general ideas are nothing but particular ones, annexed to a certain term, which gives them a more extensive signification, and makes them recall upon occasion other individuals, which are similar to them.