Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
JOHN STUART MILLIn 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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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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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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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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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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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.
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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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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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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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.
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