When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The only part of the conduct of any one for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself his independence is of right absolute. Over himself over his own body and mind the individual is sovereign.

Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness of virtue and sin among the members of a society.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations the relations within which these individuals stand.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

The most important element of a free society where individual rights are held in the highest esteem is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others they are dragged down by the mass either by ridicule or slander.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work a company work a society work a civilization work.

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

In junior high school I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress withdrawal and asocial manner. Dozens of times I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

When I began in 1960 individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

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

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.