#individual

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#individuals #made #original #probably #society

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#else #existence #fails #find #finding

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#ahead #am #anyone #awards #ball player

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done. ↗

— John Mica

#around #done #hired #individual #instead

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#himself #individual #liberty #limited #make

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#any #cause #conduct #degree #depends

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes. I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#best #broken #complicated #composing #could

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person. ↗

— Andy Murray

#i #i am #individual #individual sport #person

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#arms #arms race #communications #considerable #easier