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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. - [Statesmanship] A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. - [Cause] 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. - [Government] All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. - [Obedience] Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself. - [Man] Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. - [Happiness] But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences. - [Individuality] Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has 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. - [Eccentricity] Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. - [Genius] In politics it is almost a triviality to say that public opinion now rules the world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. - [Government] In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race. - [Individualism] Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians. - [Ability] Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men. - [Wealth] Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. - [Originality] Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. - [Opinion] Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level. - [Contentment] Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one. - [Energy] That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public. - [Public] The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. - [Mediocrity] The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. - [Authority] The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary. - [Morality] The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or implode their efforts to obtain it. - [Freedom] The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. - [Pacification] The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. - [Learning] The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. - [Religion] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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