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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

John Stuart Mill

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
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
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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Choice Himself Imitation Planning World
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
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
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
Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Desire Man Rich
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Average General Kind Man World
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Conservative People Stupidity True
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep
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.
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Action Evil Injury Oneself Person
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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Fundamental Greatness Improvement Thinking
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
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental

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