English - Philosopher | May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart Mill
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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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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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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
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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.
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
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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.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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