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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.

John Stuart Mill

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle Government Imagination Step
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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Development Himself Person Value
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Equality Experience Herself Man Woman
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
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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Discussion Himself Live Opinion Person Possible Strong Truth
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Courage Human Intellectual Mindset Pay Price
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Ability Action Himself Pupil Work
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
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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Age Dare Independent Man Race Service
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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Kind Man Oneself Opinion Power Silence
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Force Improvement Liberty People Spirit Willing

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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