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• n  the quality of being individual
• n  a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
• n  the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs

• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.
• But Peter Kropotkin's big idea--that there are important human motivations beyond what he called "reckless individualism"--is very relevant these days.
• A combination of towering individuals and societies that played down individualism helped liberate, ravage and resurrect the vast, protean region.

• individuality
• individuation
• laissez faire

• commonality

News & Articles

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• the STORY
  Fill the Void says “I do?” Holy Hasidic hot potato, Bat-mensch! Writer/director Rama Burshtein’s Fill the Void is an emotionally potent tale about the collision of individualism and tradition, complicated by amorous affections and familial responsibilities.
  July 4, 2013 - The Reader

Quotes

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• Olaf Kolzig in SI.com
  Until guys all decide to buy in and realize it's a team and not an individual game, then we're not going to go anywhere,Kolzig said. "But having a fresh voice in here with Bruce hopefully will turn that individualism around."
• Herbert Hoover in Sify
  In 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden.
• Pope Benedict XVI in Forbes
  Benedict said Europe's population trends, "besides putting economic growth at risk, can also cause enormous difficulties for social cohesion, and, above all, favor dangerous individualism, careless about the consequences for the future."