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.
JOHN STUART MILLThere are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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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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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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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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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 despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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To 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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