Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
JOHN STUART MILLTo understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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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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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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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 pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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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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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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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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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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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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