You become extremely sexually possessive.

But the moment you fall in love, you become extremely sexually possessive of them.

It's mass individualism from a single product. It fits the hand.

Second Triversitario Congress, Meaningful anti individualism , organized by Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy, 1 3 October 1998.

Just as today, the enthusiasts of unrestrained capitalism say it's rooted in human nature, only now it's individualism, inquisitiveness, and so on.

We were spending so much time with this leopard and getting to understand her individualism, her personal character, that maybe we were taking it a little bit far.

As the political philosopher Larry Siedentop has argued, secularization is Christianity s gift to the world. According to Siedentop, features specific to Christianity led to liberal individualism, and they are absent from the other great world religions.

Many intellectuals disdain popular culture because of its crude commercialism. But such scorn is misplaced, because popular entertainment often contains subtle images and messages about individualism, consumer choice, and other values that have important political effects.

The initial disappointment about electronic productivity was thus a vivid demonstration of the limits of classical individualism. Only with inter connection in the 1990 s, above all through the Internet, did the PC realize its potential.

After all, Party leaders rarely evince their personal feelings in public, much less transgress the Party line as brazenly as Zhao did. Such individualism fit neither Leninist nor traditional Chinese proscriptions for behavior by a high official.

The loss of confidence that Americans have expressed may be rooted in a deeper shift in people s attitudes toward individualism, which has brought about decreased deference to authority. Indeed, similar patterns are characteristic of most post modern societies.

Growth has been lackluster for a quarter of a century and unemployment remains stubbornly high. Urban crime, once described as the wages of unfettered individualism, now resembles what is found in the United States, the French model s bête noire.

Economists seek to detect collective irrationality, and economic models that assume individual rationality facilitate that. By ensuring that policies respond to flaws in the rules of the game, not to individuals fallibility or irrationality, this methodological individualism saves us from dictatorial paternalism.

Social values, and consequently family values, that are shifting toward individualism, materialism and consumerist tendencies, weakening family relations, impacting the values of solidarity and cooperation within families, and contributing to the appearance of new patterns of deviant, anti social behaviour among family members

Americans have been blinded to these calamitous mistakes partly by a long history of racism, as well as by a misplaced faith in rugged individualism. For example, some white families have opposed public financing for education, because they believe that their tax money goes disproportionately to help poorer non white students.

Computing became decentralized, and the new flexibility produced a sense that control was moving away from big agglomerations of power whether governments or companies. It is not surprising that the triumph of the PC seemed to be accompanied by a revival of the nineteenth century vision of classical liberalism and individualism.

LONDON With humanity s millennia old focus on collective survival no longer a primary concern, a few fortunate societies in the West have become preoccupied with matters of human, or individual, rights. In recent decades, we have experienced a second flowering of the individualism associated with such nineteenth century thinkers as John Stuart Mill.

But increasing individualism a focus on one s own ambitions and economic prosperity in many countries poses a stubborn obstacle to realizing this vision. Indeed, the utter lack of a sense of solidarity among so many people horrifyingly evident in the US health care debate is now undermining the very basis of what a modern democratic society is.

By contrast, when the personal situations of many individual Americans are examined through European eyes, the extreme individualism that constitutes a key part of American optimism translates into an unacceptable social scandal. Cities of Tents are Filling with the Victims of the Economic Crisis, read one headline a month ago on the front page of a mass circulation American newspaper.

But Salafism is also a powerful source of personal identity, shaped and reinforced by a common form of dress and style of beard, a high degree of social conservatism, and a generally negative (but nuanced) perception of liberal individualism. I raise my head high as I am an Egyptian, and I raise my head even higher as I am a Salafi, an assistant of a leading Salafi sheikh proudly told me.