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.
JOHN STUART MILLThere is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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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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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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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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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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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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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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