But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause the better.
In sports teams win and individuals don't.
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether like an army or an orchestra they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
In the society where people are just parts in a larger machine individuals are unable to develop fully.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations the relations within which these individuals stand.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
In junior high school I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress withdrawal and asocial manner. Dozens of times I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.