Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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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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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.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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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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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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