To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
JOHN STUART MILLAll 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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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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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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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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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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