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.
JOHN STUART MILLWar 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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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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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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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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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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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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