The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
JOHN STUART MILLA man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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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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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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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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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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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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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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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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