There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
JOHN STUART MILLMen do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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 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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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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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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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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