We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
JOHN STUART MILLWhat distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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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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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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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 human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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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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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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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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 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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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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War 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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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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All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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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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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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