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“On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.”
Jean Piaget“Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140“The time to clean our city of any dirt begins individual action for collective clean communities.”
Lailah Gifty Akita“The time to clean our city of any dirt begins with individual action for collective clean communities.”
Lailah Gifty Akita“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt“The traditions of . . . bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances with contributed to the formation of character. The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes - when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. Therefore it is well to know what were the chains of daily domestic habit which were the natural leading-strings of our forefathers before they learnt to go alone.”
Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth