Quotes about Individual

Policies are organizational scar tissue. They are codified overreactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again. They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual.

The conventionality of the tribe is far more important than the happiness of the individual. In fact, the happiness of the individual ideally should rest in perpetrating the conventionality of the tribe.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

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.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks