Quotes About Individuals

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Perhaps the public would be better served by reframing the issue of media violence in terms of public health, where we seldom speak of causality (even with smoking and lung cancer) because of the variability among individuals and the nature of their exposures, but rather of alterations in "relative risk.

Humanity was composed of separate individuals now, but an embryo at early stages was also nothing more than a ball of separate cells. But these separate cells would ultimately become connected in wondrous ways to create something unimaginably greater than themselves.

To her audience in Boston she also explained how white people who see people as individuals rather than by their skin colour are in fact 'dangerous'.70 Meaning that it took only half a century for Martin Luther King's vision to be exactly inverted.

If the burden of working for little reward in an isolating society stripped of any overriding purpose can be recognised to have an effect on individuals, how could it not also be said to have an effect on society as a whole? Or to put it the other way around, if enough people in a society are suffering from a form of exhaustion, might it not be that the society they are living in has become exhausted?

Estupefactos, nos adentramos por último en el territorio más pantanoso de todos: el de quienes afirman que entre nosotros hay un número considerable de personas que viven en un cuerpo equivocado y que, por tanto, las pocas certezas que le quedaban a la sociedad (incluidas las certezas arraigadas en la ciencia y el lenguaje) deben ser reformuladas de arriba abajo.

El verdadero líder se encuentra en la cúspide de la experiencia amorosa universal y posee el suficiente poder como para activar el amor en el hipercampo y en las conciencias individuales, que son nutridas por él.

El atractor extraño del futuro ideal del hipercampo tiene su fuente en el mismo hipercampo, por lo que su influencia permea, en forma invisible, a las conciencias individuales. El conjunto de campos neuronales lo alimenta y mientras más acordes estén estas con tal influencia, más se amplificará esta.

The reason is simply that when influence is spread via some contagious process, the outcome depends far more on the overall structure of the network than on the properties of the individuals who trigger it.

Even though the Kim Kardashians of the world were indeed more influential than average, they were so much more expensive that they did not provide the best value for the money. Rather, it was what we called ordinary influencers, meaning individuals who exhibit average or even less-than-average influence, who often proved to be the most cost-effective means to disseminate information.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Facebook, on the other hand, meets regularly with NGOs and other stakeholders, but remains mum about which ones. The company's policy team is also deeply susceptible to government pressure, and, according to more than a half-dozen individuals that I spoke to, it will often speak openly about it to NGOs when meeting about specific policies.

There are exceptions to this rule—that is, if a group or individual also appears on the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Controls list of "specially designated nationals"—but this list is short.

The agile movement supports individuals and teams through dedication to the concepts of self-organization, self-discipline, egalitarianism, respect for individuals, and competency. "Agile" is a socio-technical movement driven by both the desire to create a particular work environment and the belief that an adaptive environment is critical to the goal of delivering innovative products to customers.

APM is about people, their interactions, and creating an environment in which individual creativity and capability erupts to create great products. It's people, not processes, that build great products.

But private individuals do not exist in the Soviet Union or in China where the claims of the state are total and even art and literature must be subservient to the interests of the state….

immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law. "I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945: Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience.

Remember, it is not a function of a quantity of individuals that determines if a psychological crowd has formed. Rather, it is a function of the characteristics displayed. If a person is exhibiting these characteristics, then he is part of a psychological crowd and is making crowd trades.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Whereas classical liberals seek maximum freedom from government, neoliberal individuals are perpetually responsive to the state's engineering of their environment. In the former, government is idealized to the extent that it stays out of people's lives, thereby maximizing individual choice; in the latter, the state creates the conditions that enable people to choose to behave in ways it has determined are best for the collective good

Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles or morality, but that cannot control our decision,' she said. 'Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

These people could not be bailed out, of course, because the free market was free. Of course, at times of financial crisis the Government did, in fact, bail out the major institutions of the free market, but this did not in any way undermine the fundamental notion that the market must be free and this bailing out could, of course, not be extended to individuals within the free market. Some people are, alas, not intellectually capable of understanding arguments about such complex things.