A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
JOHN STUART MILLThe love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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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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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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A 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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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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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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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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