Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Florence Nightingale

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Topic

Theory of progress

Author

Florence Nightingale

Source

Cassandra: an Essay

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Social reformer Nurse

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Italy Europe

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Original Citation

Nightingale, Florence. Cassandra: An Essay. c. 1852.

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Nightingale, Florence. "Cassandra." Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women. The Feminist Press, 1993.

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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Suppression of speech Freedom of speech and expression

Author

John Stuart Mill
Source
On Liberty
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.