#individual

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#individuality #mac

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#conformity #declaration-of-independence #hope #individuality #non-conformity

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#classification #individuality #stereotypes #stereotypes

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ↗

— Fred Allen

#decide #done #group #individually #meet

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#being #darkness #entire #entire life #find

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#both #creation #development #every #his

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#individual #interests #interruption #particular #pressure

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#community #individuals #only #rights

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#book #each #four #individual #long

So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too. ↗

— Brian Behlendorf

#also #apache #communicating #companies #going