Quotes About Individuals

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

Nowhere do citizens seem more insignificant than in a democratic nation.

Every year, therefore, the inequality of taxation separated classes and isolated individuals more deeply than ever before. From the moment when taxation had as its purpose, not to strike those most capable of paying, but those least capable of defending themselves against it, the monstrous consequence of sparing the rich and burdening the poor was inevitable.

At periods of equality men have no faith in one another, by reason of their common resemblance; but this very resemblance gives them almost unbounded confidence in the judgment of the public; for it would not seem probable, as they are all endowed with equal means of judging, but that the greater truth should go with the greater number.

All former confederate governments presided over communities, but that of the Union rules individuals; its force is not borrowed, but self-derived; and it is served by its own civil and military officers, by its own army, and its own courts of justice.

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

Help with strange problems comes from strange people.

When one photographer edged too close to the wolves, tirelessly dogging McIntyre for the best place to perch his bazooka-size lens I could see daggers in the eyes of the vvolunteers. But McIntyre was welcoming. Some individuals, her told me, could move freely about the valley; others were ruthlessly punished, chased off, or worse. He was talking about wolves.

We are establishing an understanding that the spiritual principles which we learn—the principles of spirit—are our protection, our health, our safety, our security, and our peace. And these principles will bring freedom to every individual on the face of the globe as the world awakens to them.

We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse.

People are individuals, not groups. We either live together as such, or we abandon any hope of civilisation.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

There is properly no history, only biography.

The Art of BiographyIs different from Geography.Geography is about Maps,But Biography is about Chaps.

I can't be sacked from my job, because my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in. At Government College, I mix it up with trigonometry, and so on. When I'm a saddhu, I shall mix it up with something else.

my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in.

For, none may tell another how to be beautiful. It must be the reflection of that entertained in the heart and mind of the individual. And as He is beauty, He is friendship, He is love, the more and the nearer individuals reflect that in their conversation, in their dealings with their fellow man, the greater the glory to Him.