An idea from On Liberty

“Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.” Original people will always be few, yet they start new practices and keep old ones alive. Force them into society’s few ready-made molds and you lose what they had to give.

From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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