Society, and Freedom
Found some really amazing quotes about society and freedom in John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women. A very easy, and enjoyable read. It’s also nice to see how society has progressed since his day, thanks at least in part to his book challenging the status quo. This is also something that Bill Gates aptly said in a speech I saw the other day “Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists, take on big inequities.”
Mill’s
“Any society(or person) which is not improving is deteriorating”
“What citizen of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skilful administration, in return for the abdication of freedom? Even if he could believe that good and skilful administration can exist among a people ruled by a will not their own, would not the consciousness of working out their own destiny under their own moral responsibility be a compensation to his feelings for great rudeness and imperfection in the details of public affairs?”
We should be careful in trading away our freedom for federalization, the local promise of skilful administration. We live not on paper.
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