Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
JOHN STUART MILLThe love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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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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All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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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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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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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.
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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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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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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