All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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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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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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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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