Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILLThe spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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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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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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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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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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Language is the light of the mind.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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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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