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"In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise."
"When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others."
"I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us."
"Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature."
"With a camera, one has to love individual cases."
"Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself."
"Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended."
"I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual."
"It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union."
"With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born."
"Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals."
"Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back."
"I'm just a huge fan of Joe Carnahan. He's such a charismatic individual and somebody that just applies every part of himself to the project he's in."
"I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything."
"There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no."
"Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself."
"Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
"We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty."
"A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history."
"For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history."
