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Quotes from The Perfectibility of Man — John Passmore

1914–2004 Australia

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In the interests of the ideal of maximum output, [our society] judges men by their fitness for jobs, not jobs by their fitness for men.

The Perfectibility of Man (1971)

If “humility” means nothing more than the capacity to learn from criticism, then it has an undoubted value; but if “humility” means a willingness to submit to authority—to abandon or to modify what one is doing merely because it does not accord with the teachings of the Bible or the thoughts of Chairman Mao—then it is death to the spirit: the proper name for it, indeed, is “servility.”

The Perfectibility of Man (1971)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Passmore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.