#individuals

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #ancestors #been #beloved #echo

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. ↗

— Harry Browne

#achieve #earn #everything #far #good

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#art #bands #business #compromise #dangerous

Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#disposition #first #importance #individuals #inheritances

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#along #cares #carries #civilization #complete

I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#communities #continue #excited #healthier #highlight

Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy. ↗

— Ron Davies

#clear #consciences #exercising #freely #i

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#adrift #alone #beginning #common #individuals

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#fill #ghost #god #guide #holy

Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government. ↗

— Larry Elder

#government #humanely #individuals #money #more