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.
JOHN STUART MILLActions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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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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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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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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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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