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.
JOHN STUART MILLA person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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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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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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War 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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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