The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILLStupidity is much the same all the world over.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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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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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing “what nobody does,” or of not doing “what everybody does,” is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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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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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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 general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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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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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
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