history of this quote “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.” by John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill
“A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for…is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.” John Stuart Mill
“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.” John Stuart Mill
“I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.” John Stuart Mill
“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
history of this quote “The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.” by Alexander Pope Alexander Pope
“All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunégonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios.” Voltaire
history of this quote “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.” by George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw