Quotes about Individual
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
- Thomas Jefferson
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
- Albert Camus
The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
- JM Coetzee
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
- William James
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
- Albert Einstein
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
- Victor Hugo
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
- Roger Williams
Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.
- Ezra Taft Benson