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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.
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Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
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If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.
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Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
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Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
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A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
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The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together the whole of the contingencies of every description, which being realized, the consequent invariably follows.
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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
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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 of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
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