The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
JOHN STUART MILLThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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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.
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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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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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