Mill on the good, the bad, and the government

Some, whenever they see any good to be done, or evil to be remedied, would willingly instigate the government to undertake the business; while others prefer to bear almost any amount of social evil, rather than add one to the departments of human interests amenable to governmental control

- John Stuart Mill

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There are Mornings- Liesel Mueller

There are Mornings Even now, when the plot calls for me to turn to stone, the sun intervenes. Some mornings in summer, I step outside and the sky opens and pours itself into me as if I were a saint about to die. But the plot calls for me to live, be ordinary, say nothing to anyone. Inside the house, the mirrors burn when I pass. - Lisel Mueller

Arendt On Totalitarianism

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction... and the distinction between true and false... no longer exists - Hannah Arendt

Lu Xun on Hope

Hope is like a path in the countryside, at first there is no path, but if enough people walk in the same direction, the path appears.'

Millenial Musings

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