The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
JOHN STUART MILLThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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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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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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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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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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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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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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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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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 worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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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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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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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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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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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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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