Individual Quotes

• The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

  

  George Washington
  • Character
  • Firsts
  • Impression

• Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

  

  Will Self
  • Kind
  • Strange
  • Comfort

• The free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family, and the community. It discriminates against no race, religion, or gender.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Family
  • Free
  • Community

• The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

  

  George Ohsawa
  • Freedom
  • Struggle
  • Refuse

• Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • Men
  • War
  • Rage

• Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Lonely
  • Fame

• I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ability
  • Extraordinary
  • Inquisitive

• Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

  

  Richard Scaife
  • Government
  • Defense
  • Limited

• The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.

  

  Dane Rudhyar
  • Goal
  • Personality
  • Creative

• If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Single
  • Individual
  • Weapons

• Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

  

  Greg Dulli The Afghan Whigs
  • Music
  • Individual
  • Pursuit

• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Struggle
  • Individual
  • Tribe

• There is absolutely no doubt that I am a more mature individual and Tommy Shaw is a more mature individual and that we learned a lot.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Doubt
  • Individual
  • Learned

• We not only look at individual students, we also look at daily objectives.

  

  Gary Young Pavement
  • Daily
  • Individual

• If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

  

  C. Wagner
  • Up
  • Why
  • Cities

• Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Exercise
  • Social
  • Numbers

• Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Power
  • Free
  • Authority

• Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Failure

• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Heart
  • Respect
  • Secret

• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Opportunity
  • Feminist
  • Protect

• All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Different
  • Lyrics
  • Interpretation

• The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Society
  • Two
  • Noses

• As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.

  

  Wilson Bryan Key
  • Emotional
  • Individual
  • Sanity

• There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places.

  

  Edna Walling
  • Fighting
  • Design
  • Garden

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