Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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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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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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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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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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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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To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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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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