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.
JOHN STUART MILLPhotography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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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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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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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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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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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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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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