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.
JOHN STUART MILLPersons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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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 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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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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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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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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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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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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