John Stuart Mill

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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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. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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