Quotes about Individual

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous—to poetry.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Morality is the thing upon which society is built. We owe to it all the blessings that we have.

You can never be too sure when you perform, because it's live.

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the only thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing.

The way to learn to do things is to do things.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

No one has the right to do wrong, even if wrong has been done to them.

An art whose medium is language, and whose structure is self-conscious and logical, cannot be politically conservative.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

I have never been lonely. I have been in a room – I have felt suicidal, I have been depressed, I have felt awful – awful beyond all – but I have never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me... or that any number of

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

I have to change. It's like a curse.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face.

Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

I'm trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.