No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
JOHN STUART MILLSo 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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In 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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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 an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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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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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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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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