Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
JOHN STUART MILLPhotography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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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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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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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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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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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 perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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