"No trumpets sound when the important decisions in our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
Agnes De Mille
(1909-1993)
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"The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
from the Essay "On Liberty, 1859"
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"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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"The great creative individual is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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"The general tendency of things throught the world is to render mediorcrity the ascendant power among mankind."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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"The fatal tendency of mankind is to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so."
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
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"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."
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