Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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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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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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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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