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- What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
- To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
- The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
- The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but…
- ...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
- The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason…
- The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be…
- The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
- Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
- Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion…
- No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a…
- ...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,…
- The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.
- The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
- All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
- A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by…
- 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.…
- The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
- The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and…
- This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly…
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