He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
JOHN STUART MILLNo great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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 worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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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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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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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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