There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.
Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery. . . it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.
There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions.
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.
Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?
The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.
Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.
It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.
Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.