Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Yes we need enhanced border control. Yes we need to focus our efforts on those who pose a threat to our country. But let's not fall into the trap set by the Tea Party and others who would tell you that every single undocumented individual is a drug smuggler, a terrorist, or a threat to the American way of life. That is simply not true.
It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.
I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That's right, $27.
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
