| One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. |
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| War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. |
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- John Stuart Mill |
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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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- John Stuart Mill |
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| Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. |
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- John Stuart Mill |
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| Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. |
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- John Stuart Mill |
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| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. |
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- John Stuart Mill |
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| It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. |
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- John Stuart Mill |
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| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. |
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- John Stuart Mill |
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| The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. |
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| We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. |
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- John Stuart Mill |
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