Top 495 Individual Quotes

Everyone’s an individual and individuality is such a strong thing in our society so that translates into wrestling.
Aleister Black
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Chris Hemsworth
Legally speaking, there are no such things as ‘public rights,’ as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as ‘the public.’
Lysander Spooner
The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them?
Erving Goffman
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck
When you celebrate, it’s something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
Irvin Mayfield
My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.
Andy Garcia
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
Simone Signoret
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination – think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
Terry Brooks
Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
David A. Bednar
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
Lester B. Pearson
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn’t need a tax after that.
Michael Badnarik
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
Elizabeth Bowen
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Jean de la Bruyere
After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the questio

In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Theodor W. Adorno
All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.
Clayton Kershaw
I would classify myself as an individual. That’s what I try to stay true with – being myself, 100 percent.
Khalid
A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.
Roger B. Taney
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you’re only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don’t really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
Neal Boortz
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
Bill O’Reilly
I don’t believe in outing people. It’s up to the individual, but there’s nothing wrong putting the pressure on.
Rick Mercer
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
James Keller
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
Tom G. Palmer
The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it’s been a hard transition in society – just take a look at the divorce rate – to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?
Lisa Edelstein
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.
W. E. B. Du Bois
There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.
John Shelby Spong
When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points – ‘Make sure you stay away from this,’ and ‘Don’t say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,’ and that kind of thing.
Aaron Sorkin
Whatever each individual woman is facing – only she knows her biggest challenge.
Gloria Steinem
Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation.
Kate Crawford
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce
It’s very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.
David Crystal
We will follow in letter and spirit whatever the RBI rules and guidelines are – whether at the holding company level or individual company level.
Ajay Piramal
Capitalism requires individual responsibility and accountability. People are seen as atomized units in a capitalist system – they are either useful, or they are not. They are not seen racially or ethnically or religiously. They consume and they produce, and those are their only relevant characteristics.
Ben Shapiro
If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
Thomas Sowell
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
Shiv Nadar
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Langston Hughes
An individual can make a difference, but a team can make a miracle.
Doug Pederson
We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we’ve got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.
Jason Pierre-Paul
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
Reid Hoffman
I still think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make.
John Paulson
I’ve never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There’s so many things that goes into making plays. It’s about teammates trusting one another and working together.
Troy Polamalu
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
You can’t do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can’t put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals… It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
Albert Gallatin
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
Alain Badiou
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
Jeanette Winterson
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.
Heather Brooke