When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
JOHN STUART MILLNo 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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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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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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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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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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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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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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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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