Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
JOHN STUART MILLTruth 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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