How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
JOHN STUART MILLA man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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 general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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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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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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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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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.
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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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The 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.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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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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The 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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