Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
JOHN STUART MILLEvery great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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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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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 most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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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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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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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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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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