Quotes of: Individual-responsibility Keyword

It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.

Complete Poems

Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.

Drinking and Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders

You must rely on reason and science,” she said, “and be guided by a likewise rational ethic of human concern. You must do your utmost as individuals to improve your understanding, ability and compassion.

Descent

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

Darkness Left Undone

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

Doctor Zhivago

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.

Eat, Pray, Love

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.

Encounter

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.

Foundation and Empire

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.

The Fault in Our Stars

Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill

The Female Ward

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

The Groo Chronicles, book 5

An individual being will go through lives and events in cycles on earth until it learns those specific lessons that it had come to learn in each incarnation.

God Does Not Play Dice

When we realize the truth that every creation is an individualized portion of the Creator and we are always one with It then we are ready to live in harmony.

God Does Not Play Dice

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

Genesis

It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

The Gods Themselves