Quotes About Individuals

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.

It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.

...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

It was humanly impossible to extend to seven billion people the full sympathy that each of them deserved.

From an evolution standpoint, what was the point of having people around who were not inclined to have offspring? There must be some good, and fairly subtle, reason for it. The only thing he could work out was that it was groups of people—societies—rather than individual creatures, who were now trying to out-reproduce and/or kill each other, and that, in a society, there was plenty of room for someone who didn't have kids as long as he was up to something useful.

What differentiates societies, and beings within societies, is what they define as pleasurable. If a society is structured largely around pleasures of the body, it is operating at a different level from a society structured around pleasures of the soul.

exploration is hardly ever motivated by the desire to explore. Part the curtains of curiosity, and you'll find individuals hungry for political, cultural, or economic dominion funding the expedition.

Individuals and church bodies are often caught in the paralysis of analysis. We

The key point is that not all sets of institutions, when you add up the sum of the parts, are equal. There are good and bad combinations. In some sets of institutions, people can flourish freely as individuals, as families, as communities. That is because the institutions effectively incentivize us to do good things Ã¢â'¬â€œ like, for example, inventing new and more efficient ways of working, or co-operating with our neighbours rather than trying to murder them. Conversely

good individuals cannot exist without good education, and good education cannot exist without good laws

For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from too great leniency permits things to take their course and so to result in rapine and bloodshed; for these hurt the whole State, whereas the severities of the Prince injure individuals only.

Por otro lado, aquí se inicia el proceso de personificación del Estado que más tarde desarrollará Hobbes: el Estado representa los intereses del todo y, en aras de la preservación de los mismos, emite normas para regular las acciones externas entre los individuos que interactúan socialmente.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.