All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
JOHN STUART MILLActions 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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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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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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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 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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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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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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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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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A 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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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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