The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

I don’t beg for those things which can be earned.

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith...

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world. This...

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

Greaser ‘ didn’t have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn’t have done it. Maybe you would have done the same thing, maybe a friend of yours wouldn’t have. It’s the individual.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than...

In an ideal world, an individual’s institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs...

…unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet…(from silent moments)

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

I was World Series champion in individual and synchro for the first time which was awesome.

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

If I didn’t think of it, it has no bearing on my life.

Everybody thinks they’re different—and they are—but they all demand to be treated the same. Why?

Comparison is waste of energy. Every individual is unique with unique talents. Find your passion and live your best life.

It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.

In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm… has no share in the sovereignty.

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, ‘the press.’

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately...

Either ‘the group’ is superior or the individual is superior. Marxism, socialism, fascism, and pure democracy are all forms that give power to ‘the group’ and then use violence to force individuals to obey the...

Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance....

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I’d become a terrorist, too. I’d go to war against the U.S.

The symbolic significance of individual athletes’ achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.

Self motivation is essential for individual growth.

welfare.” Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced; a gun is not an argument. (An example and symbol of this attitude is...

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.

The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.

In Socrates’ thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ‘Damned Things’ is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers,...

I can tell you this: I’m an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.

Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don’t let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you’re part of the crowd that will...

Look everywhere. There are miracles and curiosities to fascinate and intrigue for many lifetimes:the intricacies of nature and everything in the world and universe around us from the miniscule to the infinite; physical, chemical and...

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves...

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals...

Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego’s regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society’s longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a...

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

Team effort goes vain when individual effort is in the wrong direction.