Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.
What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…
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.
Every law out there is to protect the safety of every individual, regardless of their age and regardless of their race. And so, if those laws are not working, then we need to work to change them.
No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the market...
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care...
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anytime; everywhere and all the time.
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.
Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe.
A memory is made up of pieces of information taken in and processed by the brain in a way that is unique to each individual.
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
