Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILLPhotography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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