To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
JOHN STUART MILLThe only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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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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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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