It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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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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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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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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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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