#individuals

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#consequences #decisions #forget #government #i

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#actions #affect #affects #amount #beliefs

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#comfort #disease #gout #humble #individuals

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#case #choices #especially #heart #individuals

There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. ↗

— Fairfax Cone

#aimed #always #another #anyone #audience

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#aids #individuals #large #masses #small

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ↗

— William Pollard

#individuals #leadership #opportunity #provide #responsibility

... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools ↗

— Norman Friedman

#poetry #spirituality #stereotypes #art

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. ↗

— Plato

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