Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
JOHN STUART MILLOver one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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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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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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