The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
JOHN STUART MILL
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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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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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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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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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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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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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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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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