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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.

John Stuart Mill

When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Ability Challenge Defend Ideas Weakness
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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Deserve Effort Freedom Name Pursue
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Courage Human Intellectual Mindset Pay Price
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Himself Liberty Limitation Nuisance People
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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Establishment Moral Opinion Politics Revolution
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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Act Exercise Ourselves Right Way
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Government Necessary Power Reason Restriction
Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Atmosphere Breathe Freedom Genius
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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Act Conscience Desire Man Sick Strong Weakness
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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Genius Growth Minority Person Preserve Small
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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History Liberty Portion Poverty Struggle
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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Equality Experience Herself Man Woman
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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Action Himself Individual Person
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Body Mindset Oneself Sovereign
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Crush Despotism Individual
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Art Capability Circumstance Life Rule
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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Community Government Interesting Reason Worst
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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Better Different Fools Human Opinion Question Satisfaction
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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Achievement Appearance Born Chance Desire Freedom Human Life Place
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Desire Man Rich
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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Force Improvement Liberty People Spirit Willing
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Happiness Myself Object Thinking
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Economy Income Industry Neighbor Save Tax

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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