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.

JOHN STUART MILL

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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.

John Stuart Mill

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

JOHN STUART MILL

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
JOHN STUART MILL

Proportion
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.

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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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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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Meaning
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.

JOHN STUART MILL

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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Willing
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

JOHN STUART MILL

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.

JOHN STUART MILL

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

JOHN STUART MILL

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Nuisance
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

JOHN STUART MILL

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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Word
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.

JOHN STUART MILL

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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Object University
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

JOHN STUART MILL

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Known Tradition
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Conviction Raise
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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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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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 MILL

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 MILL

Offend Premium
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

JOHN STUART MILL

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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