Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
JOHN STUART MILLAs often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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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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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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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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To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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