All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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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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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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