Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
JOHN STUART MILLAll good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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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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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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