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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

— in The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats.

Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful coexistence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members..

— in The Virtue of Selfishness, Ayn Rand.