In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
JOHN STUART MILLThe price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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 all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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 pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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