"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."

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Source : On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

John Stuart Mill

#Freedom Quotes #Civil Rights Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, thatâ€™s what our minds start believing. This warped and narrow view of whatâ€™s not working has a severe influence on your creative potential. It can be crippling.”
“When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.”
“But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.”
“Coaches are sales people and change agents.”
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc
“In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.”
“If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.”
“There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.”

Source : Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

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