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.
JOHN STUART MILLA 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.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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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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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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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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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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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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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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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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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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