It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.
Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.
Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.
There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals.
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.
We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages. . . it's a collaboration of ourselves and our ancestors, the result is a deeper understanding for individuals and in consequence, a broader culture for the nation.
It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.
A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide the firearms that will continue to be procured with criminal intent.
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
I don't see everybody as much as I used to because as individuals everybody is busy but none of the relationships have changed.
If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference and at heart you treat individuals with deep respect and want to see others flourish.
I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.
Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?