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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.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill 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.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill 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.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill 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.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill 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.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill
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