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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.

John Stuart Mill

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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Freedom Government Harm Law Live Thinking
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
JOHN STUART MILL

Better Fight Himself Man Misery Willing
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Force Hope Listening Side
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Desire Man Rich
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
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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Development Himself Person Value
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Cultivation Life Mental Reason Satisfaction
Human 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.
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Achievement Appearance Born Chance Desire Freedom Human Life Place
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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Errors Opinion Preparation Suffering Thinking Truth
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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Marriage Perspective Slave Wife Word
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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Community Government Interesting Reason Worst

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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