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.
JOHN STUART MILLWith equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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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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A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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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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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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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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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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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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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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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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