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.
JOHN STUART MILLLandlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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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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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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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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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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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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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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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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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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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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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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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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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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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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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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