Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
JOHN STUART MILLLiberty consists in doing what one desires.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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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.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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