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" All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. "

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" The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. "

John Stuart Mill

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" One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. "

" Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. "

" He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. "

John Stuart Mill

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" Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. "

" 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. "

" It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. "

" 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. "

" That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. "

" I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. "

" The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. "

" What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. "

" All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. "

" 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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" As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. "

" The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. "

" A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. "

" Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. "

" The person 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. "

" The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. "

" 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. "

" Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. "

" The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. "

" Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. "

" The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. "

" Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. "

" 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. "

" The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. "

" 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. "

" No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. "