Individual Quotes - Page 39

• Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Today, Groups, Destruction

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

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• Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state -
  leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Oppression, States, Subordination

  Andrew Bernstein (2005). “The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez-faire”, University Press of Amer

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• Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Demand, Firsts, Ethics

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• It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

  John Sexton

  Inspiring, Artist, People

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• Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Discovery, Ideas

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.60

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• I don't belong to a church or political party or a group of any kind. I feel that Amnesty International is the most civilized organization in history. Its currency is the written word. Its weapon is the letter; that's why I am a member. I believe in its non-violence; I believe in its effectiveness. Its dignity and its sense of commitment. Its focus on individuals and the concentration and tenacity with which they defend those imprisoned for their ideas has earned it the cautious respect of repressive governments throughout the world.

  Sting

  Party, Believe, Commitment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.

  Colin Wilson

  Mean, Glasses, Sight

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• Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature

  Herbert Simon

  Unique, Thinking, Ems

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• If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.

  David Bohm

  Block, Communication, Giving

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

  John Adams

  Party, Understanding, Tongue

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.432

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• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

  Jim Morrison

  Important, Levels, Firsts

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• Times are changing and women need the critical stimulus of competition outside the home. A girl must nowadays believe completely in herself as an individual. She must realize at the outset that a woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it. She must be aware of the various discriminations , both legal and traditional, against women in the business world.

  Amelia Earhart

  Girl, Jobs, Believe

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• I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Want, Saws

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• Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

  Bill Lee

  Baseball, Nice, Army

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• When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from underprivileged backgrounds. I look forward for your support in this noble cause

  Imran Khan

  Uplifting, College, Support

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• The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Poison, May

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.

  David Bohm

  Death, Views, Long

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.60, Routledge

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• ... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Rights, Mind

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• True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Abiding, Doe

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• At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.

  George Leonard

  Healing, Heart, Unique

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• Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Freedom, Race

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• It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Struggle, Men

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• The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

  John Knowles

  Medicine, People, Next

  "God’s Hybrid" by Dr. Jeffrey McCombs, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

  John Adams

  Law, Liberty, Enjoyment

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.225

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• No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due acknowledgment of the governing providence of a Supreme Being and the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher of hearts and righteous distributor of rewards and punishments are conducive equally to the happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the well being of communities.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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