As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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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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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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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There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
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