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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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
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The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
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The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
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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 knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
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Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.
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My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.
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If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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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. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
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Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.
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