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"We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic."
"Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality."
"Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact."
"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."
"Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death."
"As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual."
"Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence."
"...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic."
"Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself."
"There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious."
"Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?"
"I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers."
"Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective."
"With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself."
"How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others."
"No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people."
"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."
"We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!"
"It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals."
"The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings."
