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.
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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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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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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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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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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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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