All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
JOHN STUART MILLAll silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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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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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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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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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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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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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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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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