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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
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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Greatness Mindset Opinion Small
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
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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Deserve Effort Freedom Name Pursue
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Himself Liberty Limitation Nuisance People
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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Human Invention Light Question
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
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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Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject
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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Aspiration Beautiful Natural Presence Sick Society Solitude
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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Force Improvement Liberty People Spirit Willing
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILL

Conscience Form Goodness Harm Man Oneself
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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Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep
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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Assumption Difference Greatness Opinion Purpose
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle

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