All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
JOHN STUART MILLThe pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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