What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
JOHN STUART MILLThe idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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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 democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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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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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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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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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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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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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Language is the light of the mind.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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