Quotes About Individuals

Conversely the British saw a one-dimensional figure in the Cypriot; they did not realize how richly the landscape was stocked with the very sort of characters who rejoice the English heart in a small country town—the rogue, the drunkard, the singer, the incorrigible.

Targeting individuals, while ignoring larger system failures, oversimplifies the problem and does little to prevent its recurrence.

No se puede dar la felicidad a los individuos, y menos todavía a las sociedades! Cada sociedad ha de seguir su propio camino, subir de manera natural los peldaños del progreso y deberse a sí misma todo el bien y el mal que consigue.

Once you permit individuals to maneuver in secret, unasked, and for their own purposes, there is chaos.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

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.

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved