#individual

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

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#final #germany #individuals #names #stake

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#never #sacredness #self-respect #violate #your

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. ↗

— George Reisman

#capitalism #each #economic #engages #individual

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#channels #individual #intensity #intuitive #knowledge

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ↗

— Bayard Rustin

#act #being #confers #dignity #him

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#atmosphere #communication #differences #family #feelings

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better. ↗

— Mark Shields

#better #cause #individuals #more #numbers

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#american experience #basic #basic human rights #citizens #experience

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #dignity #discrimination #double-standards #empowerment