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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

Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
JOHN STUART MILL

Desire Man Rich
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Force Hope Listening Side
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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Development Himself Person Value
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILL

Happiness Philosophy Question
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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Marriage Perspective Slave Wife Word
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
JOHN STUART MILL

Greatness Mindset Opinion Small
All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
JOHN STUART MILL

Aspect Examination Ideas Ourselves Support Truth
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Better Fight Himself Man Misery Willing
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Finding Freedom Liberty Lying Right
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
JOHN STUART MILL

Act Conscience Desire Man Sick Strong Weakness
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Assumption Difference Greatness Opinion Purpose
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
JOHN STUART MILL

Economy Growth Hold Rich Sleep Title
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State

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

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