And our nation's really founded on a very romantic concept of individualism.

Klaus Wellershof For me, what characterizes modern society is the strong trend towards individualism.

So we have a lot of very romantic ideas in our culture about individualism.

In a country where individualism is more common, personal objections to smoking in public are usually respected.

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.