Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
JOHN STUART MILLWar 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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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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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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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among 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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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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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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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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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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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