The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILLWith equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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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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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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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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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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 general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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