One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
JOHN STUART MILLOver one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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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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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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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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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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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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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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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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