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- 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…
- Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly…
- Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but…
- Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political…
- To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt…
- 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…
- Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
- On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of…
- History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen…
- 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…
- Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope…
- ...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,…
- Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
- If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate…
- If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree…
- One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
- 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…
- 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…
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to…
- Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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