There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
JOHN STUART MILLThe most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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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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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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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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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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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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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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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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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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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