Individual Quotes

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
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

Tom Stoppard

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

Kevin Spacey
But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

Aristotle
- Unity
- State
- Household
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
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

Oscar Wilde
- World
- Passion
- Sad
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

Elizabeth Janeway
Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

Andrew Bernstein
- Family
- Society
- Ethics