Quotes About Individuals

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.

I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.