#individual

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We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.


Bryant McGill


#care #consciousness #individualism #kindness #love

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.


George Carlin


#individuality #beauty

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.


Arthur Peacocke


#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.


Eric S. Raymond


#capable #capacity #comparable #could #development

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.


Herbert Read


#developed #forms #i #i am #independent

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.


John Stuart Mill


#life

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.


Jane Roberts


#channels #individual #intensity #intuitive #knowledge

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.


Josiah Royce


#best #fragment #glimpse #hint #individual

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.


Bayard Rustin


#act #being #confers #dignity #him

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.


Ai Weiwei


#american experience #basic #basic human rights #citizens #experience