The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
JOHN STUART MILLThe 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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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 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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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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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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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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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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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.
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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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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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