Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
JOHN STUART MILLIn 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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