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A quotation by Mill, John Stuart

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and more courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist

On Liberty, ch. 3 (1859)

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WIST - Mill, John Stuart | On Liberty, ch. 3 (1859)

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character...

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A quotation by Snyder, Timothy

When states are absent, rights — by any definition — are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.

Timothy Snyder (b. 1969) American historian, author

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, “Conclusion: Our World” (2015)

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WIST - Snyder, Timothy | Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, "Conclusion: Our World" (2015)

When states are absent, rights -- by any definition -- are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.

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