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John Stuart Mill Quotes
«The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind»
«A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands, even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
beneficial, docile, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfs, dwarves
«The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.»
«Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other ? that is to say, when society is at an end.»
«A person may suffer very severe penalties at the hands of others, for faults which directly concern only himself.»
«War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; in a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»