“An individual excels where the institution fails.”

“Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts will be largely for naught, since peopletire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations.”

“It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.”

“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.”

“By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.”

“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”