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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about liberty, absolute

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

Quote by John Adams about self-control

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about leadership, progress, science, peace, art, magic, time

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Quote by Bruce Barton about sacrifice, liberty, death, man, world, contentment

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about society

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one.

Quote by Prince Andrew about nation, people, contentment

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about memory

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Quote by Albert Camus about death, peace, heart

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Quote by Orson Scott about old, god

French people are very individual. Here, sex is so important, and the refusal of sex is so prevalent.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about sex, people

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Quote by Charles Dickens about affair, man

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.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about soul

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

Quote by Harold Evans about history

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about destruction, self-control

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

Quote by Andy Garcia about parents, work, time, contentment

Today's macroeconomic problems require attention to more fundamental forces of individual incentives and institutional rigidities.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about attention, force, problems

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Quote by William Godwin about conscience

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about nation, people

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation, prosperity, world