To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
JOHN STUART MILLTo 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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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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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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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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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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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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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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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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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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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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