An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

People love westerns worldwide. There’s something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It’s a simpler time. There’s no organized laws and stuff.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.