While we are all subject to large social forces that shape our lives and the lives of our children, we also have the capacity as individuals to make conscious and intentional choices about how we’re going to relate to our circumstances and to the era in which we find ourselves. We all have the potential […]
Individual - Individuality Quotes
It (song “Don’t Tread On Me”) means I believe in myself and I believe I make an intelligent decision that won’t interfere with your life, so do the same for me or die like a dog!
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
It is impossible to overemphasise the power of the individual in the shaping of the values of society. Even among chimpanzees the influence of certain individuals is apparent. There are “genius” chimpanzees who invent new behaviours that are passed on and become part of the tradition of the group. There are assertive males who lead […]
At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any […]
There was never a time when so much official effort was being expended to produce happiness, and probably never a time when so little attention was paid by the individual to creating the personal qualities that make for it. What one misses most today is the evidence of widespread personal determination to develop a character […]
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live […]
We are, all of us, calling and calling across the incalculable gulfs which separate us even from our nearest friends.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than “The Individual.”
Eagles don’t flock – you have to find them one at a time.
