Quotes About Individuals

If we are surrounded by flawless individuals, it can make our own mistakes seem magnified. And if a problem appears overlarge, it becomes more intimidating to attempt to overcome it.

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage - in the current incarnation.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

Life isn't weird: it's just the people in it.

This was all the more dangerous in that my nature has always made me more open to the world of the possible than to that of real-life contingencies. This approach helps one to understand the human soul, but one runs the risk of being deceived by individuals.

This at once made up a gathering of several half-worthy individuals; and if a small patch of garden with a few trees,

And certainly there were many others besides my grandmother and Albertine from whom I had assimilated a word, a glance, but of whom as individual beings I remembered nothing; a book is a great cemetery in which, for the most part, the names upon the tombs are effaced. Sometimes, on the other hand,

of exchange, one that would be impervious to the gamesmanship of gifted individuals. By functioning as an auction house and averaging the bids to arrive at a final price

Privi?i din spate, oamenii duc greutatea destinului lor, ca ?i cum, în partea din ei în?i?i pe care n-o pot vedea, s-ar înghesui toate suferin?ele, necazurile, speran?ele, individuale ?i cele ale tuturor genera?iilor precedente care parc? se înver?uneaz? împotriva ultimului martor, îl împing în fa??, dar între timp par s? râd? de el, de înfrângerea pe care o va suferi.

Non saprò mai quanti uomini l'hanno amata prima di me, ma so che ognuno, accudendola o scalfendola, ha contribuito a plasmarla, a farla così com'è.

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

Individuals in this predicament may find it next to impossible to relax their wakeful hypervigilance in relation to their surroundings even when no longer confronted by any immediate challenge or danger; a prolonged or repeated exposure to trauma can put individuals on the defensive for the simple reason that it causes them to anticipate, and brace themselves against, more trauma.

For a man is not only a biological but a social product, and the social environment of individuals in the process of education, is the home. Scientific pedagogy will seek in vain to better the new generation if it does not succeed in influencing also the environment within which this new generation grows! I

Who has ever heard of any ministry of education that is called upon to solve any social problem acutely felt in the country? Never has such a case occurred because the world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world.

The world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world. They prepare themselves for life by remaining outside of life.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.

Noi non possiamo sperare di costruire un mondo migliore senza migliorare gli individui. Con questo scopo, ciascuno di noi deve lavorare al proprio perfezionamento, pur accettando la propria parte nella vita generale dell'Umanità; poiché il nostro dovere particolare è di aiutare quelli ai quali possiamo essere più utili

If one by one we counted people out

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.