Quotes about Individual
Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
— Albert Einstein
When numbers are substituted for morality, and no individual can claim a right, but any gang can assert any desire whatever, when compromise is the only policy expected of those in power, and the preservation of the moment's "stability," of peace at any price, is their only goal—the winner, necessarily, is whoever presents the most unjust and irrational demands; the system serves as an open invitation to do so.
— Ayn Rand
For it is difficult to believe in God without an example, to be led by God as He led Abraham, a solitary individual, to see all the other peoples having an abhorrence for the religion you follow, to find that you alone believe and follow something different from all other men.
— Martin Luther
Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.
— Martin Luther
Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.
— Mark Driscoll
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
— John Eldredge
I believe integrity can be restored to a society one person at a time. The choice belongs to each of us.
— Billy Graham
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
— Henry David Thoreau
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
— Henry David Thoreau
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher