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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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Economist
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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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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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Language is the light of the mind
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Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
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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.
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Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
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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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The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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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?
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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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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.
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