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.
JOHN STUART MILLAll attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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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 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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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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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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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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