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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."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do."
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."
"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing generation."
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"All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself."
"The time is past when mankind can be allowed to remain permanently at the level of fight it has reached."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things."
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained."
"Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men."
"He who knows only his side of the case knows little of that."
"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."
"Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"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."
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion."
"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
"It is not the mind that should be educated, but the young."
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"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them."
"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."
"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."
"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
"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."
"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation."
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
"Originality is the one thing that can’t be imitated."
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
"Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption."
"The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind."
"It is important that great minds think alike, for it is technology and creativity that drives civilization forward."
"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought."
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"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."
"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 others."
"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."
"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."
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
"The individual is not accountable to society for his actions insofar as these concern the interests of no person other than himself."
"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it."
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
"Every man is the best and the only judge of what is good for him."
"The individual is sovereign over their own mind and body."
"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection."
"The principle of individual liberty is not grounded on reasons of expediency."
"The person 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."
"Over oneself, over one's own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
"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."
"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."
"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it."
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time."
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
"Every man who says I will not be a slave, will be master of a slave."
"In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
"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."
"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
"To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors."
"To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman."
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
"Stupidity is much the same all the world over."
"Conservatism is not a refuge for the stupid, but the stupid find good company in it."
"That 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 others."
"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."
"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."
"Originality is not always genius, but genius is always originality."
"The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people."
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse."
"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
"The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice."
"The demand that all other people shall resemble ourselves, grows by what it feeds on."
"There is no room for any speculativeness in my manner of writing; I am exact and dry, but I hope clear."
"Stupidity is always certain of itself."
"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."
"The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle... That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection."
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