The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.
A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.
The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies.
It was immaterial to me that Elvis didn't write his own songs. Those were very different days, and he selected whatever suited him best from material supplied by publishing houses and teams of writers - all of whom were extremely conscious of his style of delivery.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.
Trump doesn't need his own agenda if he can terrify independent voters in swing states about what would happen if the Democratic agenda is implemented.
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
