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"Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."
"For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual."
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
"The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life."
"Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment."
"In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism."
"To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic."
"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength."
"Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing."
"The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God."
"Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science."
"Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being."
"Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic"."
"Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term."
"It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded."
"In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness."
"Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly."
"The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others."
"The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind."
"It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless."
