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Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.88, Odyssey Editions

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.9, Hackett Publishing

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

"Authority and Religious Liberty". Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., archive.org. September 21, 1924.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.95, Hackett Publishing

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

"You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview With David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

John Locke (2016). “Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.103, Oxford University Press