Quotes About Individuals

When a form of government is legitimately constituted," Rosa now wrote, "even though it may initially have been defective or even questionable in various ways Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is one's duty to support it, for public order or the common good requires it. Nor is it permitted to either individuals or to parties to plot to defeat it or supplant it or change it with unjust means."22

But, as Uri Geller seemed to demonstrate, certain talented individuals might possess "volitional control" such that they could impose some order on the usually random quantum motions. Some

Social psychologists confirm that we are likely to perceive people outside our own community as more alike than those within it. We perceive members of our own group as individuals, but see other groups as more or less homogenous (psychologists call this the "outgroup homogeneity bias").

God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.