John Stuart Mill quote: "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected ...
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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means ...
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
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When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power ...
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Thus, a people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, ...
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There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: ...
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns...
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The maxims are, first, that the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far ...
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it; and a State whi...
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On completely popular government: Its superiority in reference to present well-being rests upon two ...
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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of histor...
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; po...
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Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any hu...
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Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 It is of no use to say th...
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most...
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But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human rac...
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...
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No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo...
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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long a...
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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice g...
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
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The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is...
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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of ...
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So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost...
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The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th...
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if w...
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nat...
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actio...
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What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latt...
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and ...
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o...
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has bro...
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou ar...
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which...
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves t...
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, men...
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount o...
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The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the ...
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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserabl...
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount...
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he ...
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long a...
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Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what th...
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns...
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding un...
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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...
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the op...
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own...
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power amon...
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the...
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That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public.
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it profes...
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their bel...
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is t...
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men r...
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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the...
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...
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Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make ...
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as...
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No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo...
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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any...
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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivatio...
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we wer...
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There are many truths by which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has bro...
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fun...
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Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods w...
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If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one tha...
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy the...
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a h...
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the...
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That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time
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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance ...
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Prote...
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Language is the light of the mind
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The sub...
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Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interest...
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other...
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That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public
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There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of ...
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the...
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those...
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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided...
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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest...
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The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion k...
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Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make ...
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It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...
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To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefor...
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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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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: ...
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his r...
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so
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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power amon...
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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is its...
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Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any...
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The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active...
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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any...
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Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the ...
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There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...
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But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not ...
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Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
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A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has be...
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or ...
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral...
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, ...
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to h...
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the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by ...
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even fo...
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be g...
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It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are we...
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Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and wha...
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; p...
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If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, man...
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one...
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their i...
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There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportu...
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Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.
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No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, t...
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mank...
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Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called so...
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That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings. The ...
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Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in...
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Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—...
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It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admissi...
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All honor to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life, when by such renu...
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imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the
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The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest ...
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Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a deci...
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It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happin...
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إن القدرة على أسمى المشاعر هي في معظم الطبائع، نبتة رقي...
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: إن البشر يفقدون تطلعاتهم العالية لأنهم يفقدون أذواقه�...
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To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed,...
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Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ...
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfi...
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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount o...
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of an...
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Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumst...
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The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or be...
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I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicke...
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The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ...
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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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All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...
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All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never ...
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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people...
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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take ...
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentie...
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happ...
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In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and ...
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Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mec...
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Gdyby trzeba było podzielić ﬁrmę, to oddałbym majątek, halę produkcyjną i wyposażenie, a s...
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink ...
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now w...
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

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