For everything I do I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested and I never want to get a DUI those are my moral values.
Injustice poverty slavery ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals individual and collective a vast variety of them seldom predictable at times incompatible.
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.
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.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women and there are families.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Men who are rogues individually are in the mass very honorable people.
When you talk about obesity there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.