The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
If all mankind minus one were of one 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.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
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