Individual

Individual

An individual is a person or a specific object. Individuality (or selfhood) is the state or quality of being an individual; a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals.

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    Who can measure the advantages that would result if the magnificent abilities of these women could be devoted to the needs of government, society and home, instead of being consumed in the struggle to obtain their birthright of individual freedom? Until this be gained we can never know, we can not even prophesy the capacity and power of women for the uplifting of humanity.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)

    Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)