“Each of us is obligated to bring his individual and independent capacities to bear upon a wide range of human concerns.”
Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life (1974)
Context: I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, on man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. Each of us is obligated to bring his individual and independent capacities to bear upon a wide range of human concerns. It is with this conviction that we squarely confront our duty to prosperity. We must live for the future of the human race, and not of our own comfort or success.
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Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
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Richard Rumelt (1942) American economist
Source: Strategy, structure, and economic performance. (1974), p. 119
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VIII, Section I, p. 454
“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
Quisque suos patimur manis.
Variant: Each one his own hope.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 743
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) German jurist, political theorist and professor of law
"The Tyranny of Values" (1959)
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
Pattern Integrity 505.201 http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s05/p0400.html#505 <br class="br">1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards
“Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Salut au Monde, 11
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)
Context: I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the intuitive wisdom of each and every individual... the individual's integrity of speaking and acting only on the individual's own within-self-intuited and reasoned initiative... the individual's never joining action with others as motivated only by crowd-engendered-emotionalism, or a sense of the crowd's power to overwhelm, or in fear of holding to the course indicated by one's own intellectual convictions.
Herbert Spencer book Social Statics
Pt. II, Ch. 4 : Derivation of a First Principle, § 4
Social Statics (1851)