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.
JOHN STUART MILLWe 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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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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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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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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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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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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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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