Individuals And Society Quotes

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

History is driven, over the long haul, by culture – by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies … Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through the pursuit of practical and effective efforts to promote human rights that we show our real commitment to the welfare of individuals and society.

Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I’ll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society’s invisible venture capitalist, the commons.

If you make a film set in London or in Pakistan or wherever, the thing that interests me is the relationships between individuals – individuals and society, individuals and their family, their girlfriend or boyfriend, it’s all the same idea.

Education has in America’s whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.