Quotes about Individual

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

Everyone shares the handicap of mortality. Our individual physical, emotional, and spiritual failures are but symptoms of this disease.

For a Christian is only a Christian when he unceasingly asks critical questions of the society in which he lives and continuously stresses the necessity for conversion, not only of the individual but also of the world.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.