The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
JOHN STUART MILLThe 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 liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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 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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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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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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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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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain 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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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 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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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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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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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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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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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