He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
JOHN STUART MILLThe liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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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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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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The 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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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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 liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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