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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

John Stuart Mill

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILL

Crush Despotism Individual
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Deserve Effort Freedom Name Pursue
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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Crime Necessary Offend Premium Punishment State
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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Act Conscience Desire Man Sick Strong Weakness
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Conclusion Cultivation Draw Narrow Study
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
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Development Force Human Live Machine Nature Requirement Tree
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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Fundamental Greatness Improvement Thinking
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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Affair Concern Freedom Himself Person
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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Choice Himself Imitation Planning World
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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Economy Growth Hold Rich Sleep Title
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Greatness Known Tradition
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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Bad End Goodness Man
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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Adoption Experience Greatness Movement
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.
JOHN STUART MILL

Certain Discussion Fake Opinion Refuse Silence
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 MILL

Assumption Difference Greatness Opinion Purpose

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