The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
JOHN STUART MILLTo mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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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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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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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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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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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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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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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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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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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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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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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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