The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
JOHN STUART MILLIn the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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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 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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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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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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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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