It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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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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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.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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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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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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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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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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