Quotes of: Individual-life Keyword

Brian: Please, please, please listen! I've got one or two things to say. The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them! Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selve...

Life of Brian

the freedom of individuals has – we may presume – an anthropological foundation. This is admittedly a doctrine which cannot be proved or disproved in the normal sense of the word ‘prove’. And yet our hope that freedom is not going to be ultim...

Life

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith ...

Escape from Freedom

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the charact...

Andrei Tarkovsky

For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands of baristas in 54 countries. ...

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.

Richard Diaz

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Ambrose Bierce

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.

Thomas Aquinas

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Dennis Weaver

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

Hillary Clinton

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally...

Ally

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the sy...

Theodore Kaczynski

Human Rights calls for responsible behavior on the part of every individual being, and the society at large. As entwined portion of rights, duties follow, thereby it calls for performance of duties such as practicing nonviolence, solving conflicts wi...

Henrietta Newton Martin

I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in fu...

Rudy Giuliani

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulli...

Viggo Mortensen

The chronicle of a man, the account of his life, his historiography, written as he lived out his life formed part of the rituals of his power. The disciplinary methods reversed this relation, lowered the threshold of describable individuality and mad...

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance - the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learn the fundamental truths of life and move up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her i...

God Does Not Play Dice

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love, and Tattooing

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

Mrs. Sappho: The Life Of C. A. Dawson Scott, Mother Of International P. E. N

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.

Lauren London