#individual

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#among #because #collective #creates #democratic

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#born #developed #field #geniuses #grasses

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#individuals #know #others #representatives #see

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. ↗

— John Grierson

#corporate #fact #harmful #in fact #individual

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. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#bigger #healthier #heavier #individual #mean

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#coldly #deny #future #individualist #make

The French are very individualistic. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

#individualistic #very

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. ↗

— Brian Moore

#individuals #made #up #want #who

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities. ↗