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Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
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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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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Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
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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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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
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Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.
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The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing what nobody does, or of not doing what everybody does, is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
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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.
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative we begin by making any supposition, even a false one, to see what consequences will follow from it and by observing how these differ from the real phenomena, we learn what corrections to make in our assumption.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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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So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.
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