#individuals

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#boys and girls #consider #decide #did #different

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#each #exalted #god #highest #highest degree

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethics #face #family #good #good life

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#cities #clear #consequences #devastating #discipline

Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #alienation #another #any #been

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#affect #any #complex #gotten #individuals

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace. ↗

— Marjorie Watts

#c-a-dawson-scott #communities #humanity #individuals #international-relations

It was probably not so unusual to be a different person with a different man, for all parts were authentically within, waiting to be coaxed out by one person or another ↗

— Anita Shreve

#love #relationships #love

Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil. ↗

— Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu

#individuals #men #purpose #men