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- So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from…
- Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
- 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,…
- Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are…
- 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…
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
- It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary…
- Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger…
- 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,…
- Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts…
- Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the…
- A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
- What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
- The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
- Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
- Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
- 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…
- Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather…
- It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called…
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