“There is something about a swarm that is damaging to the pride of its individual members.”

“Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups. The aggregate relations among individuals and groups, among individuals within groups, and among groups forms a network of astonishing complexity.”

“When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.”

“Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.”

“Everybody's damaged by something.”

“The community is a fictitious body, composed of the individual persons who are considered as constituting as it were its members. The interest of the community then is what? The sum of the interests of the several members who compose it.”

“When you shut down neurons to prevent them from transmitting signals, we call that "brain damage." Copyright is brain damage. It's brain damage in the great mind, and it's brain damage in the individual mind.”

“When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.”

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”

“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”