The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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 despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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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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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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A 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.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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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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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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