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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

When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Action Character Evidence Goodness
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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Experience Flavor Life Risk Shelter
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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Children Crime Existence Instruction Mindset Prospect Society Training
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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Desire Learning Satisfaction Seek
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
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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Establishment Moral Opinion Politics Revolution
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
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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Ambition Creation Democracy Desire Domination Grade Institution Politics Society Spirit
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
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Force Hope Listening Side
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Ability Act Belief Majority Man
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence

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