Top 495 Individual Quotes

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
Emile Durkheim
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids – that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
Robert Kennedy
District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to possess a firearm under the Constitution, is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced during my tenure on the bench.
John Paul Stevens
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution’s protection of privacy.
Harry A. Blackmun
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don’t know how another person experiences pain – physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it ‘weariness of life.’
Miriam Toews
If you break an individual record, it’s because of the greatness that comes before you.
Abby Wambach
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans’ tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
John Warner
We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can’t get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it… at the state’s cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost.
Phil Gingrey
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You can’t just say, ‘God help me,’ and he’s there. It takes a little bit more work on the part of the individual, I think.
Billy Squier
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.
Mario Vargas Llosa
The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan ‘revolutions’ were rooted in overturning the status quo – excessive taxation – to empower the individual and encourage a free society and prosperous economy.
Priti Patel
I would trade all the individual awards I’ve won for a World Cup.
Abby Wambach
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead
I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.
Harvey Milk
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn’t say anything about it. Then the liar isn’t sure which lies are compromised.
Jesse Ball
The community stagnates without the impulse of the indi

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein
Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
Jim Elliot
When you’re in a gang, you go through life like any other individual. You have certain obligations, but you are not forced to do anything.
Richard Cabral
As an individual, you take Covid-19 situation aside, you would want your family to travel with you, but because of this situation, safety is important, safety of your wife, family and daughter, obviously safety of your teammates is really important.
Ajinkya Rahane
A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.
Mohnish Pabrai
You can’t legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
Athol Fugard
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David McCullough
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what’s already there in the music.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
George Reisman
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
Nancy Duarte
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’m a staunch anti-Castro individual.
Andy Garcia
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
Marilyn Ferguson
Let’s not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
John Thune
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
Haruki Murakami
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage – in the current incarnation.
James Young
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.
Jane Goodall
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Muhammad Iqbal
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn’t have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
Scott Cook
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 are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
Mohsin Hamid
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
Charles Hodge
Silos and bureaucracy are well-oiled machines in corporate America, but they are ultimately perpetuated by individual behavior. If we start behaving differently, we can create change. In other words, shifting your focus onto the team – or the ship as a whole, not just yourself – will have meaningful impact.
Chris Fussell
I’ve always been a big believer in diversification for anybody. It’s never good to put all of your efforts and all of your time and all of your financial resources into just one project. Diversification is key for any individual and any business.
Paul Heyman
Issues like security threats, declining traffic, high insurance premiums, rising fuel costs, among others, call for individual strengths to be aligned towards regional stability.
Lucio Tan
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
Thurgood Marshall
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides
Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
Bill Blass
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
Rand Paul
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
P. J. O’Rourke
'Pose' has basically been a trip for everyone. We're al

‘Pose’ has basically been a trip for everyone. We’re all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we’ve embarked on the journey together.
Indya Moore
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives.
Robert Nozick
China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
Dalai Lama
My goal in sailing isn’t to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Dennis Conner
I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
Nan Hayworth
The crowd is the crowd. You’re gonna take them as an individual performer how you take them. The key is how do you learn from them. How do you use whatever is happening reaction-wise to get better.
Roman Reigns