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 MILLThere is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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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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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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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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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 perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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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 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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