Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
JOHN STUART MILLMen do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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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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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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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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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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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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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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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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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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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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