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" The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. "

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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. "

John Stuart Mill

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. "

" The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. "

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

" The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. "

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

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

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

" All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. "

" 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. "

" Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. "

" 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. "

" In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. "

" Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. "

" Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. "