Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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 man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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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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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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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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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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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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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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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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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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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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