What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
~ Esther Williams
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
~ William James
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
~ William Graham Sumner
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.
~ Rupert Friend
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
~ Ronald Reagan
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
~ Jean De La Bruyère
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
~ Lester B. Pearson
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
~ Louis Macneice
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
~ Rosa Parks
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
~ B. F. Skinner
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
~ John Stuart Mill
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
~ Victor Hugo
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
~ Leland Stanford
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
~ Kevin Mitnick
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
~ Friedrich August Von Hayek
You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
~ Ron Paul
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
~ Dennis Chavez
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
~ Michael Novak
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
~ Herbert Marcuse
