The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
We cannot pretend that Messi will solve all the problems. He cannot carry everything on his shoulders.
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
I'm on the rise and whatnot, but I'm not the man to say, 'All right, world, here's grime.' It's gonna take me, Skepta, JME, Novelist and Lethal Bizzle, to say, 'I'm sick, he's sick, he's sick, he's sick'. Not one man can do it.
In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.
in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.
No man is wise enough by himself.
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
I have been trying to perform well and give my best, but unless I have a good story line in my hand or a supportive team, I am nothing.
Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.
By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.
Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself, can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior investigators.
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Paul Pogba can do everything but he cannot do everything all alone.
I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.
All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.
Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.
