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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

In sports teams win and individuals don't.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football basketball handball volleyball and water polo individual sports are not supported.

The farther a society progresses the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

I believe society has a right to defend itself just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether like an army or an orchestra they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

In an individualistic culture the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

Prison continues on those who are entrusted to it a work begun elsewhere which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking individuality is not highly prized.

For too long in this society we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

In the society where people are just parts in a larger machine individuals are unable to develop fully.

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.

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