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"Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life."
"World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual."
"Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?"
"The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing."
"Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying."
"I am definitely an individual."
"A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love."
"It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual."
"Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them."
"Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong."
"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."
"An individual chooses and makes himself."
"We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind."
"Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities."
"The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual."
"Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist."
"That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox."
"We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing."
"Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals."
"Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent."
