Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill

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Topic

Political theory Inaction Fighting for justice

Speaker

John Stuart Mill

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Mill, John Stuart. Inaugural Address at St. Andrews. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867. Orinally given on 1 Feb. 1867, St. Andrew's University, St. Andrew, Fife, Scotland, UK.

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If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Albert G. Hodges. 4 Apr. 1864.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "To Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
2001 2000s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

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Another quote from 1867

Theory of the true civilization.
It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning, It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

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Civilization

Author

Charles Baudelaire
Language
French
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 58.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 58.