Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILLI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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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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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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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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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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