I'm an individualist with roots, an individualist with a sense of community, a sense of belonging, a sense of responsibility. And you know, that's the sense in which our people have used the term for a long time. When the Greeks talked about individualism 2,500 years ago, they spoke about it with the same understanding I have today. In the sixth century BC, when individualism characterized Greek poetry, one of the greatest of the Greek poets, Theognis of Megara, expressed his sense of responsibility and his concern for his race when he deplored the careless breeding habits of many of his people and the consequent decline in their racial quality. So too a woman will demean her state And spurn the better for the richer mate.
Money's the cry.
Good stock to bad is wed, And bad to good, till all the world's cross-bred. No wonder if the country's breed declines. . . . To be frank, I think that they understand nothing. They don't see themselves in any framework of race or history or civilization. They think of themselves as pure, disconnected individuals, with responsibilities to no one, existing only for themselves.