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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.
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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I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
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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 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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The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.
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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 reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.
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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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