Individual Quotes - Page 31

• We all live in a society where someone who lives right across hasn't eaten and you don't know it or you are having problems where you are close to suicide and no one knows; everyone is going about their duty and thinking everything is fine. It's a dual world we live in and there is so much going on and yet it is not so obvious because we all live in our individual worlds.

  Juliet Asante

  Suicide, Thinking, World

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• As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries.

  Juliet Asante

  Country, Thinking, Want

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• I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Thinking, Together, Stuff

  Source: www.columbusalive.com

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• I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  School, Thinking, Important

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.83, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There must be a cooperation of all who believe in God, knowing that authentic religiousness - far from placing individuals and peoples in conflict with one another - rather pushes them together to build a world of peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Believe, Knowing

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• Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Humanity, Doe

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• The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.194, Vintage

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• Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Depends

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Humanity, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greed, Saving, Honest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.177, Grove Press

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• Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Cleansing, Social

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.281, Tara Publishing

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• Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Liberty, Essentials

  Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Co-operation”

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• My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fierce, Harm, Exclusive

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.18, Rajpal & Sons

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• That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Term, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Examination, Groups

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in their collective growth, with whom they seek their union of love as individuals, in whom they find their ideal of father, friend and beloved.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Father, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.154, Sahitya Akademi

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• Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Morality, Economics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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• Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Self, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.19, Rajpal & Sons

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• Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Normal, Defence

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• Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Liberty, Action

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Liberty, Steps

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're eccentric because they are the product of an individual mind. They are not, in any way, mediated.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Mind, Culture

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Stronger, Groups

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.

  Lauryn Hill

  Focus, Style, Trying

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Team, Korea, Europe

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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