The feeling individual appeared weaköhe felt only his own weakness.But if he accepted his weakness and his separateness and descended into himself, intensifying his loneliness, he discovered his solidarity with other isolated creatures.

-Bellow, Saul
  Nobel prize lecture, Stockholm,12 Dec.

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

I hold no brief for private enterprise.But I have unshakeable faith in individual enterprise.

-Burton, C(harles) L(uther)
  A Sense of Urgency: Memoirs of a Canadian Merchant.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for theindividual, it isbestfor therace, becauseit insures thesurvival ofthefittest ineverydepartment. Weaccept and welcome, therefore, as conditions towhichwe must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.

-Carnegie, Andrew
  'The Gospel of  Wealth', in the North  American Review,  Jun.

If the individual isno longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib†we enter a new regime.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
  Dissenting opinion in ruling to uphold the police right 'to stop and frisk',10  Jun.

If the idea of society were extinguished in individual minds and the beliefs, traditions and aspirations of the group were no longer felt and shared by individuals, society would die.We can say of it what we just said of divinity: it is real only in so far as it has a place in the human consciousness, and this place is whatever we may give it.

-Durkheim, EŁ  mile
  The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (translated by Joseph Ward Swain,1965).

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

-Ellison, RalphWaldo
  Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

-Gullit, Ruud
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

All in all, if one sought to design a life style which was destructive of the individual, the way that business has structured itself would seem to be almost ideal.

-Harvey-Jones, SirJohn
  Making It Happen: Reflections on Leadership.

The more the state'plans'the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

-Hayek, Friedrich August von
  The Road to Serfdom.

It takes up no falling cause; fights no uphill battle; advocatesnogreat principle; holdsout a helping hand to no oppressed or obscure individual. It is 'ever strong upon the stronger side'.

-Hazlitt,William
  Of  The Times. In the Edinburgh Review, May.

Every form is individual, there exists none which is abstract.

-Heinse,Wilhelm
Quoted in  J  J  W Heinse Sa«  mmtliche Werke (1903^25).

  In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

-Hume, David
^62  Kosmos (translated as Cosmos,1897).

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 31 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

It might have been supposed that competition between expert professionals, possessing judgement and knowledge beyond that of the average private investor, would correct the vagaries of the ignorant individual left to himself. It happens, however, that the energies and skills of the professional investor and speculator are mainly occupied elsewhere. For most of these persons are, in fact, largely concerned, not with making superior long-term forecasts of the probable yield on an investment over its whole life, but with foreseeing changes in the conventional bias of valuation a short time ahead of the general public† This battle of wits to anticipate the basis of conventional valuation a few months hence, rather than the prospective yield of an investment over a long term of years, does not even require gulls amongst the public to feed the maws of the professional; it can be played by professionals amongst themselves.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

The ethical reality of the individual is the only reality.

-Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye
  Concluding Unscientific Postscript, bk.2, pt.2, ch.3 (translated by Swenson and Lowrie).

The definition of an individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

-Koestler, Arthur
  Darkness at Noon,'The Grammatical Fiction', pt.2.

History does not provide us with any instance of a society that repressed the economic liberties of the

-Kristol, Irving
Hungarian-born  British  film  producer.  He  worked  in Vienna, Berlin  and  Hollywood  before  coming  to  Britain  in  the  early 1930s  where  he  founded  London  Film  Productions   and  the Denham Studios.

What calls me is that lifted, rough-tongued bell (Art, if you like) whose individual sound Insists I too am an individual.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Reasons for  Attendance'.

Liberty, asit is conceived bycurrent opinion, hasnothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

-McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)
  Speech. Collected as 'The Contagion of Ideas', in On the Contrary (1961).