All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
JOHN STUART MILLThe human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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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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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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