 | John Stuart Mill - 1989 - 336 páginas
...administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives, in the details of business; a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may...it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly,... | |
 | Stewart Justman - 1991 - 206 páginas
...well pacified that all courage to act, all virtu, has been lost.56 The essay ends on that very note: A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may...it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly,... | |
 | Arnold Beichman - 328 páginas
...entrepreneurial ambitions will not be satisfied. As John Stuart Mill wrote in his essay On Liberty, "A State which dwarfs its men in order that they may...small men no great thing can really be accomplished." Again, let us give Gorbachev every possible benefit of the doubt. The Western press is full of articles... | |
 | Henry William Spiegel - 1991 - 904 páginas
...to society: "The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it. ... A state which dwarfs its men in order that they may...beneficial purposes will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished." It is against this background of Mill's general view of the role... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...administrative skill, or of that semblance of it which practice gives, in the details of business; a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may...it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly,... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 148 páginas
...will find that they no longer engage in independent research. "A state which dwarfs its scientists in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes," I am, of course, quoting John Stuart Mill, "will find that with small scientists no great thing can... | |
 | Robert Martin, Gordon Stuart Adam - 1994 - 900 páginas
...A warning and a prescription in the concluding paragraph of the essay reflects these premises: [Al State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may...— will find that with small men no great thing can «-ally be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything... | |
 | Albert William Levi - 1995 - 188 páginas
...postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation to a little more of administrative skill— will find that with small men no great thing can really...it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly,... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 páginas
...ancestors, which no length of time or kind usage whatever will be able to eradicate. Niccolo Machiavelli A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may...small men no great thing can really be accomplished. John Stuart Mill At the extremes of the political spectrum one encounters people who are moved chiefly... | |
 | Harold Joseph Laski - 1997 - 400 páginas
...of Lord Acton's fine protest. "History of Freedom," p. 151. '« "Liberty" (Everyman's ed.), p. 170. be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial...it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly,... | |
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... a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished... 
