What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
JOHN STUART MILLLandlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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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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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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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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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 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 idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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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.
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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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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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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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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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