The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.
I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.
I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I’m black. No matter that every single room I go to, I’m usually the darkest person there… I kind of resent that mentality. I’m just an individual.
I’m really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
The success of a film at the box office will ensure happiness to the entire unit, but individual awards are like vitamin shots that will help boost the morale of an actor.
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us – to see Christ in him.
When I arrived at IBM, there were ‘Team’ signs all around. I asked, ‘How do people get paid?’ They told me, ‘We pay people based on individual performance.’
The reason why the tag teams are not main event level attractions in the WWE is because Vince McMahon doesn’t like it and doesn’t present it that way. He’d rather make individual stars.
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
It’s a new era in fashion – there are no rules. It’s all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it’s a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely the fault of individual malingering but the structural consequence of governments allowing the free market to rule our lives.
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.
It doesn’t matter what kind of clothes you put on: if you’re a stylish individual, you’re going to preserve that.
When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
Pentatonix has always been keen on emphasizing the diversity of each individual band member.
Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.
In Degas’s compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.
How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong – wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.
I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It’s like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
