Quotes About Individuals

I rather like finding out instantly whether you've been successful or not. It's a cliche, really, but the fact is that every gig is different: it's a live event, and you're with a different group of individuals every night.

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.

Las religiones también son como el vino: hay gente a la que le sienta mal y gente a la que le sienta bien.

the purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.)

Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force – for the same reason – cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

Nonsense! Do those worshippers of government believe that free persons will cease to act? Does it follow that if we receive no energy from the law, we shall receive no energy at all? Does it follow that if the law is restricted to the function of protecting the free use of our faculties, we will be unable to use our faculties?

Thus, as the force of an individual cannot lawfully touch the person, the liberty, or the property of another individual—for the same reason, the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes.

the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For

according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.

Every generation has found [the Bible's] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.

But though society had not it's formal beginning from any convention of individuals, actuated by their wants and their fears; yet it is the sense of their weakness and imperfection that keeps mankind together; that demonstrates the necessity of this union; and that therefore is the solid and natural foundation, as well as the cement, of society.

The only true and natural foundations of society are the wants and the fears of individuals.

Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals.

Organizations are for weak men, who are nothing individually, but collectively of some importance; strong men have less need of them, except to rule or use them.

According to the Gospels, Jesus did not tell his listeners to believe whatever they wished to believe as individuals, or to follow him only in their private thoughts and interior sentiments but not in concrete, public, shared human life.

Averages are bad measures. I want to see actuals, highs, lows and why—not an average. An average is just lazy.

Good God, girl!" shouted her uncle. "It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!