 | Daniel A. Bell - 2000 - 382 páginas
...corrupt rulers. And this is a problem, if I can quote the concluding sentences of Mill's On Liberty, in a "State which dwarfs its men, in order that they...instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes. . . . the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in the end avail it nothing,... | |
 | Richard Epstein - 2000 - 438 páginas
...dwarfs its men, in order that they may he more docile instruments in its hands even for heneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really he accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in... | |
 | Alexander Meiklejohn - 2000 - 126 páginas
...public safety. As he sums up his results, he takes as a kind of motto the words of John Stuart Mill: "A State which dwarfs its men in order that they may...find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."18 Mr. Chafee tells the story, as he sees it, of the futility and disaster which came... | |
 | Martin H. Redish - 2001 - 342 páginas
...composing it; and a State which postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation,... a state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may...docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes—will find that with small men no great thing can be accomplished. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty... | |
 | Malcolm Pearce, Geoffrey Stewart - 2002 - 700 páginas
...following: 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...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,... | |
 | Tieman H. Dippel, Jr. - 1987 - 212 páginas
...restricted our leaders in the amount of good they can do for us. John Stuart Mill expressed it this way: "A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they...small men, no great thing can really be accomplished." Texans are unique. Individual responsibility and a willingness to cooperate are still part of our character... | |
 | James Michael Martinez, William Donald Richardson, D. Brandon Hornsby - 2002 - 442 páginas
...everyone, even those persons not engaged in, or affected by, criminal activity. According to Mill, "a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they...find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."27 Many theorists have echoed this concern about the potential for abuses when a sovereign... | |
 | Ruth F. Chadwick, Doris Schroeder - 2002 - 384 páginas
...social benefit: 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...— will find that with small men no great thing can be accomplished. Utilitarianism and the welfare state It would be difficult to overstate the influence... | |
 | Ken Brown - 2002 - 232 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...- will find that with small men no great thing can be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything will in... | |
 | Ross Terrill - 2009 - 404 páginas
..."The worth of a State, in the long run," he wrote, "is the worth of the individuals composing it. ... [A] State which dwarfs its men, in order that they...find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished."73 The PRC state indeed has dwarfed its people, if less so in its second half than its... | |
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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... 
