A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
JOHN STUART MILLTo understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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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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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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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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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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.
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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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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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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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