A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
JOHN STUART MILLAll silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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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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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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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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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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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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