Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
JOHN STUART MILLI 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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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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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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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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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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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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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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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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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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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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