There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
JOHN STUART MILLPhotography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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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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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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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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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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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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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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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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