Quotes About Individuals

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.

People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can't really survive as whole individuals without it.

the moral failings of individuals are irrelevant for understanding both why the financial crisis in the United States happened and why austerity is now perceived as the only possible response

Whatever our virtues and prejudices as white individuals, this structural racism works as an often elusive but constantly evolving and lethal social system. Structural

Moreover, most mass movements are angry and gloomy movements, hostile toward well-adjusted, happy, and successful individuals. Again, this is evident

Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve Utopia if individuals are free to go their own way.

The most common kind of zine is the personal zine, created by individuals reflecting on their everyday lives-confessional, sometimes mundane, containing even scandalous writings.

Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.

Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.