Individualism Quotes - Page 19

• A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Religious, Ethos

  Michael Lerner (1996). “The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism”, Perseus Books

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• I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

  Kathleen Turner

  Politics, Causes, Helping

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• My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

  Amanda Lear

  Bed, Shows, Talk Shows

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• The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

  John Locke

  Government, Libertarian Party, People

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• I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women

  Kathleen Turner

  Women, Reaching, Practicals

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• In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Kids, Italian

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological.  The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Political Differences, Citizens

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5168, NYU Press

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• They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.

  Bobby Sands

  Struggle, True Identity, Law

  Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

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• Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

  Tab Hunter

  Hollywood, Spaghetti, Ran

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• No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

  William Ellery Channing

  Individuality, Should

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• Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Pet, Feline

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Failure

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

  Renny Harlin

  Imagination, Individuality, Want

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• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Spiritual, Men, Ethos

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• Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Ideas, Age, Faces

  "The Moral Animal" by Jonathan Sacks, www.nytimes.com. December 23, 2012.

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• Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

  Jim DeMint

  Christian, Country, Strong

  "Interview: Sen. Jim DeMint on Tea Party, U.S. Debt, and God's Calling". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Long, Killers

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• At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.

  Ron Fournier

  Community, Honor, Way

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• There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

  E. M. Forster

  Literature, Taste, Majestic

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.81, 谷月社

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• Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Death, Design Process, Aesthetic Beauty

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• There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Sea, Purpose

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1917). “Method and Results: Essays”

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• Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Unity, Opponents, Causes

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• The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

  Will Durant

  Men, Europe, America

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• Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Libertarian

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.299

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