Individual Quotes - Page 38

• All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

  William Ellery Channing

  Determination, Lying, Self

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

  Seth

  Teacher, Boss, Rely

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• The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.

  Seth

  Order, Differences, People

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• Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.

  Seth

  Names, People, Trends

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• The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.

  Mark Levin

  Men, Rights, Conservative

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.

  Mark Levin

  Spiritual, Unique, Soul

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• The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Choices, Extinction

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

  Doug Collins

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

  Seth

  Civilization, Spontaneity, Institutions

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• I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny?

  Seth

  Fun, Responsibility, Destiny

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• It is not understood that before life an individual decides to
  live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the
  body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born.
  He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness
  or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will
  kill a person who does not want to die.

  Seth

  Gun, Epidemics, Self

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• Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed.

  Adam Smith

  Wall, Communication, Party

  Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.323

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• A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.

  Adam Smith

  Competition, Secret, Demand

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.114, Imprint Academic

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• Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

  Paul Martin

  Country, Pride, Our Veterans

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• We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs.

  Michael Steele

  Needs, Saving, Increase

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• Oh, no. I don't think I've ever really subscribed to that view, that you can turn it on and off like a water tap. Um, you know, I think that there's a whole lot that goes into the makeup of an individual that, uh, you just can't simply say, oh, like, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being gay." It's like saying, "Tomorrow morning I'm gonna stop being black."

  Michael Steele

  Morning, Gay, Makeup

  "Michael Steele, au revoir" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.

  Gary Chapman

  Yesterday, New Day, Today

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.31, Moody Publishers

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• We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

  William Boyd

  Self, Form, Collections

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.

  Charles Mackay

  Running, Reading, Mad

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I”, p.7

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• Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

  Charles Mackay

  Punishment, Desperate, Sooner Or Later

  Charles Mackay (1852). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.67

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• To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Self, Ego

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.337, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

  William Pollard

  Mistake, Focus, Kitchen

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• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Diversity, Progress

  Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

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• On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

  Wade Davis

  Would Be, Culture, Paper

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