The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who ...
The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
Individuals who are out there to make transactions with pay-per-tweets, it's a turnoff for their fans, rightfully so.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
As I started to research gorillas, I began to understand that they're all totally individual and idiosyncratic, and they have their own personalities.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.
It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.
Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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