Quotation by D.H. Lawrence

He thought that, because the community represents millions of people, therefore it must be millions of times more important than the individual, forgetting that the community is an abstraction from the many, and is not the many themselves.
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Originally published (and withdrawn) by Methuen (1915). The Rainbow, ch. 11, Penguin Books (1987).

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