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.
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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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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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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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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 worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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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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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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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