Search in quotes: individuals

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group...

Quote by Ron Paul about opinion, force, police, state

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about life, ability

We've had a few inquiries from companies and individuals looking to develop an interactive, web-based game but, to date, none of them have progressed to the contract and license stage.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about companies, games

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about leadership, progress, science, peace, art, magic, time

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Quote by Albert Camus about death, peace, heart

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Quote by Orson Scott about old, god

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Quote by Charles Dickens about affair, man

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about destruction, self-control

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Quote by Juvenal

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about things, good, good luck

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about survival, self-control, human imperfections

No reasonable person could possibly believe that individuals are fully formed outside society in isolation, if you will.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about opinion, society, people

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, justice

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

Quote by Andy Partridge about chaos

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need...

Quote by Ron Paul about privacy, purpose, society, need

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about life, force, police, day

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about revolution, history

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Quote by Michel Foucault about art, objects, society, magic, life

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person. It's only when we step out of that labeled box, that our abilities begin to be fully recognized, giving us a better definition of who we truly are as...

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about ability, people