Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILLLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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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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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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