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Everyone shares the handicap of mortality. Our individual physical, emotional, and spiritual failures are but symptoms of this disease.
— Henri Nouwen
For a Christian is only a Christian when he unceasingly asks critical questions of the society in which he lives and continuously stresses the necessity for conversion, not only of the individual but also of the world.
— Henri Nouwen
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
— Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
— Henry David Thoreau
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
— Henry David Thoreau
This [...] government [...] has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man cam bend it to his will.
— Henry David Thoreau
I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.
— Anne Graham Lotz
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a curiosity, is now a component part of some of the governments of the world. Once men quarreled because they wanted God worshipped in a certain way; now they quarrel because they do not want God worshipped at all. The wars of religion of the seventeenth century have become the wars against religion of the twentieth century.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The Scriptures are not merely a record of historical events that have passed. They constitute for every age a revelation of God's mind and will to each individual.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
— Thomas Jefferson
To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
— Malcolm X