Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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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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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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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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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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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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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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