Reading today from Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein:

“Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society, nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.”

Society and Personality
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934