Individuals Quotes

• The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Community
  • Moral
  • Religion

• I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

  

  Jonathan Shapiro
  • Nature
  • Individuals
  • Satirical

• We're going to fight over these because they've objected to some of the questions, we received derogatory information regarding those individuals.

  

  Steve Lynch Autograph
  • Information
  • Questions
  • Individuals

• I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success.

  

  Monika Chiang
  • Success
  • Talent
  • Talented

• In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Sense
  • Egoism

• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Life
  • Powerful
  • States

• The problems we face are global in proportion, and their solutions begin with individuals.

  

  C. Maxwell Stanley
  • Problems
  • Solutions
  • Individuals

• I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Government
  • Individuals
  • Responsibilities

• We don't want to burden individuals with unfair taxes.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Taxes
  • Burden
  • Individuals

• I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feelings
  • Tolerance
  • Beliefs

• I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Influence
  • Creation

• Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves.

  

  Albert Gallatin
  • Government
  • Individuals
  • Statesman

• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Light
  • Human

• Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Nation

• You know I’m not exactly sure why girl groups disappeared because I think we’re all individuals I can only speak for my group.

  

  Terry Ellis En Vogue
  • Groups
  • Individuals
  • Disappeared

• We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

  

  Rush Limbaugh
  • People
  • Country
  • Succeed

• Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Dream
  • Risk
  • Individuals

• The band is a millionaire. We as individuals aren't.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Band
  • Individuals
  • Millionaire

• Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • People
  • America
  • Individuals

• There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

  

  Carl Whitaker
  • Families
  • Individuals
  • Fragments

• If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases...Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.' This mentality generates inequality, which in turn generates 'a violence which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control'...changed individuals cross racial, religious, ethnic, class or political boundaries to build friendships. These friendship work like sutures, healing wounds in the social fabric. They 'humanize the other,' making it harder for groups to stereotype or scapegoat. They create little zones where the beloved community is manifest...They help people envision the common good--a situation where all are safe, free, and able to thrive. As my friend Shane Claiborne says, our problem isn't that rich people don't care about poor people; it's that all too often, rich people don't know any poor people. Knowing one another makes interpersonal change and reconciliation possible.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Racism

• Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Anger
  • Aims

• It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Book
  • History
  • Nations

• When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Individuals
  • Inferiority

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