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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.

John Stuart Mill

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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Human Lawyer Object University
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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Errors Fatal Mistake Reason Tendency Thinking
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Happiness Myself Object Thinking
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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Action Himself Individual Person
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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History Liberty Portion Poverty Struggle
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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Aspiration Beautiful Natural Presence Sick Society Solitude
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Action Character Evidence Goodness
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle Government Imagination Step
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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Experience Forever History Ideas Persecution Truth
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Ability Act Belief Majority Man
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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Himself Moral Prevent Purpose Right Willing
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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Economy Growth Hold Rich Sleep Title
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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Human Invention Light Question
Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
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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Greatness Mindset Opinion Small
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.
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Conscience Form Goodness Harm Man Oneself
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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Better Different Fools Human Opinion Question Satisfaction
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Conclusion Evil State Subject
Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Brief Complex Luck Photography
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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Stupidity World
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Courage Human Intellectual Mindset Pay Price
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Cultivation Life Mental Reason Satisfaction
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Force Hope Listening Side
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
JOHN STUART MILL

Equality Experience Herself Man Woman

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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