Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
Individual Quotes
500+ Sourced quotes
Source
Report...
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Report...
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor W. Adorno
Source
Report...
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.
Albert Einstein
Source
Report...
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
Albert Einstein
Source
Report...
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
Source
Report...
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
Pope Francis
Source
Report...
The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
Thomas Jefferson
Source
Report...
Communism differs from all previous movements in that it overturns the basis of all earlier relations of production and intercourse, and for the first time consciously treats all natural premises as the creatures of hitherto existing men, strips them of their natural character and subjugates them to the power of the united individuals.
Karl Marx
Source
Report...
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
Erich Fromm
Source
Report...
There is one living spirit prevalent over this world, (subject to certain contingencies of organic matter & chiefly heat), which assumes a multitude of forms each having acting principle according to subordinate laws. — There is one thinking sensible principle (intimately allied to one kind of organic matter—have & which thinking principle seems to be given a assumed according to a more extended relations of the individuals, whereby choice with memory or reason? is necessary—which is modified into endless forms bearing a close relation in degree & kind to the endless forms of the living beings.
Charles Darwin
Source
Report...
Specialization in almost all branches of human endeavor has, to be sure, resulted in unprecedented achievements - however, at the expense of narrowing the individual's field of vision. Thus it is hard nowadays to find anyone able to repair, properly, a garment, a piece of furniture, let alone a watch.
Albert Einstein
Source
Report...
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
Mahatma Gandhi
Source
Report...
Democracy will win — because a government's legitimacy can only come from citizens; because in this age of information and empowerment, people want more control over their lives, not less; and because, more than any other form of government ever devised, only democracy, rooted in the sanctity of the individual, can deliver real progress.
Barack Obama
Source
Report...
It seems to me that the simple acceptance of this fundamental fact of American life, this acknowledgment that the law of work is the fundamental law of our being, will help us to start aright in facing not a few of the problems that confront us from without and from within. As regards internal affairs, it should teach us the prime need of remembering that, after all has been said and done, the chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character—that is, the sum of his common sense, his courage, his virile energy and capacity. Nothing can take the place of this individual factor.
Theodore Roosevelt
Source
Report...
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Report...
To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.
Lewis Carroll
Source
Report...
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Aldous Huxley
Source
Report...
The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.
Erich Fromm
Source
Report...
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself
George Orwell
Source
Report...
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
Erich Fromm
Source
Report...
The dressing up and puffing up of the individual erases the lineaments of protest.
Theodor W. Adorno
Source
Report...
My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence.... In a gentle way you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Source
Report...
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
Napoleon I of France
Source
Report...
We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside. And for the young people, practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe — to know what you believe and then be willing to stand up for it. And what's true for individuals is also true for countries.
Barack Obama
Source
Report...
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
1
...
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
...
20
Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes