#individual

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#freedom #individuality #liberty #society #uniformity

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beings #definite #distinctively #existence #individuals

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention. ↗

— Ben Harper

#different #i #individual #just #much

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages. ↗

— William Herschel

#been #community #declaration #degrees #difference

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#country #death #dedicated #education #fine

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. ↗

— Shirley Hufstedler

#asks #be prepared #calling #children #democratic

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#controls #democracy #individual #individual liberty #liberty

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#distinct #each #four #individual #lots

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#always #award #because #being #end

Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars! ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#cars #difference #drives #example #for example