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 MILLAll ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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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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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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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
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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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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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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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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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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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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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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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