Quotes About Individuals

Yet his experiments led him to a contradictory conclusion. Programming did not teach people how to think—he realized he knew too many narrow-minded programmers for that to be so, now that he considered the question in depth. The truth was the converse: Every individual's ingrained way of thinking affected how he or she programmed.

The great ideas arise when you give freedom," declared the Rockefeller Foundation's Warren Weaver—"freedom to think, freedom from other pressures—to individuals of great intellectual capacity . . . and let them be motivated primarily by their curiosity to find out how nature operates.

To produce the Music of the Spheres, the Harmonies of the Heavens, we need a collectivist, communitarian world where strong, autonomous individuals know that they get the best from themselves by getting the best from others. By helping others we most of all help ourselves

When it comes to safe, simple lifestyle prescriptions, I'm realizing it may be more effective to empower individuals directly.

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

A loosely connected group of individuals united by their opposition to progressivism, which they perceive to be a thinly veiled fundamentalist religion dedicated to egalitarian principles and intent on totalitarian world domination via globalist hegemony.

If human beings had the wisdom and knowledge-generating capacity to be able to describe how a free market would work, that would be the strongest possible argument for central planning. One advocates a free market not because of some moral imprimatur written across the heavens, but because it is impossible for human beings to amass the knowledge of local conditions and the predictive capacity necessary to effectively organize economic relationships among millions of individuals.

Individuals matter. Leadership matters. A different American president might have adopted a more cautious approach to engagement with this communist leader. Reagan, however, dared to be bold.

The real power belongs to the people who control information,' he says, still staring at the ground. 'Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information

Siempre he sabido que los destinos de nuestros mundos, el tuyo y el mío, están a merced de las acciones de los individuos. Los hechos de una sola persona pueden alternar el curso de un mundo y crear historia. Y tú eres uno de esos individuos.

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your freedom to swing your arms ends at my nose.

The Realistic Vision acknowledges that people vary widely both physically and intellectually—in large part because of natural inherited differences—and therefore will rise (or fall) to their natural levels. Therefore governmental redistribution programs are not only unfair to those from whom the wealth is confiscated and redistributed, but the allocation of the wealth to those who did not earn it cannot and will not work to equalize these natural inequalities.

we are emotional, vulnerable and hapless individuals. It is an attack on human potential."12

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Discipline "makes" individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

Nul ne peut voir par-dessus soi, écrit Schopenhauer pour faire comprendre l'impossibilité d'un échange d'idées entre deux individus d'un niveau intellectuel trop différent.

Yksikään sivilisaatio tai aikakausi ei ole pystynyt kehittämään yksilöissään yhtä paljon katkeruutta. Siitä näkökulmasta katsottuna me elämme ennenkokematonta aikaa. Jos nykyajan henkinen tila on esitettävä yhdellä sanalla, se on epäilemättä katkeruus.

De toutes ses forces (qui furent grandes), la littérature s'oppose à la notion d'actualité permanente, de perpétuel présent. Les livres appellent des lecteurs; mais ces lecteurs doivent avoir une existence individuelle et stable : ils ne peuvent être de purs consommateurs, de purs fantômes; ils doivent être aussi, en quelque manière, des sujets.

In Cohen's opinion, the ideas manifest in Nietzsche's philosophy—the rejection of compassion, the elevation of individuals above the moral order and the triumph of the will—led directly to Nazism.

It leads to the personal enslavement of individuals. Because if you're involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it's bondage. Personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement. And that's why this is so dangerous.

Spiritually healthy families come from spiritually healthy individuals who, on their journey together, seek to live "on script" each day.

But no social change can come about until the consciousness of individuals is changed first. When a young man asked Carlyle how he should go about reforming the world, Carlyle answered, "Reform yourself. That way there will be one less rascal in the world." The advice is still valid. Those who try to make life better for everyone without having learned to control their own lives first usually end up making things worse all around.

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself.