The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
JOHN STUART MILLTo understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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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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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.
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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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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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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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