A Quotes
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“An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.”
“An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.”
Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium
“An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.”
Source: The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand
“An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.”
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
“An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.”
“An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.”
“An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.”
“An individual who is rooted in his inner
self is always blissful. If bliss is not forever, it is not bliss. Happiness and unhappiness comes and goes, but bliss is always there.
What is always within you, it is your nature, your true self. Your very nature is bliss. But you have forgotten your true nature, bliss, and have become identified with what continuously changes: happiness and unhappiness.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“An individual who is rooted in his inner self is always blissful. Through awareness, the meditator continuously experiences the blissful self. An individual who is experiencing centeredness and bliss
can also be surrounded by unhappiness, but he is not identified with unhappiness. The meditator is rooted in bliss through awareness. Through awareness, the experience of bliss can be found. Awareness is the method through which you can recognize your true nature,”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.”
“An individual with no covenant can operate in an anointing, but will have no authority.”
Source: Pour the Oil
“An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.”
“An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.”
“An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.”
Source: Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
“An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.”
“An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.”
Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
“An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.”
Source: Change Is Good...You Go First: 21 Ways to Inspire Change
“An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.”
Source: Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie
“An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State
“An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only creatures of Nature, perpetual creatures, as old and as permanent as it. In order to judge it better, we no longer consider the species as a collection or as a series of similar individuals, but as a whole independent of number, independent of time, a whole always living, always the same, a whole which has been counted as one in the works of creation, and which, as a consequence, makes only a unity in Nature.”
“An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.”
“An individualist—a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own—may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.”
Source: Courtship Rite
“An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader - not as a looter; as a producer - not as a Attila.”
Source: The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
“An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.”
“An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.”
Source: Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence
“An industrial system which uses forty per cent of the world’s primary resources to supply less than six per cent of the world’s population could be called efficient only if it obtained strikingly successful results in terms of human happiness, well-being, culture, peace, and harmony. I do not need to dwell on the fact that the American system fails to do this, or that there are not the slightest prospects that it could do so if only it achieved a higher rate of growth of production, associated, as it must be, with an even greater call upon the world’s finite resources.”
Source: Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.”
“An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.”
“An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.”
“An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill”
Source: Marketing Myopia
“An industry created to satisfy the male sex right came to create the culture in which women had to survive.”
Source: Penile Imperialism: The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination
“An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.”
“An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.”
“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”
Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
“An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.”
Source: A.W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures - 1930-31, Volume 5 of 17
“An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.”
“An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.”
“An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.”
Source: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek penance is humankind’s unique act of salvation. Whenever a person fails, it is often their overwhelming sense of anguish that drives them forward to make a second attempt that is far more bighearted than they originally envisioned. The need for redemption drives us to try again despite our backside enduring the terrible weight of our greatest catastrophes. There is no person as magnanimous as a person whom finally encountered tremendous success after previously enduring a tear-filled trail of hardships and repeated setbacks. In an effort to redeem our lost dignity, in an effort to regain self-respect, we find our true selves. By working independently to better ourselves and struggling to fulfill our cherished values, we save ourselves while coincidentally uplifting all of humanity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.”
Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
“An inexhaustible imagination is the fountain of youth.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.”
“an inexplicable sense of happiness”
Source: On the Other Side
“An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous
“An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?”
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.”
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)