Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and 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.


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Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—...
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It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admissi...
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All honor to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life, when by such renu...
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imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the
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The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest ...
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Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a deci...
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It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happin...
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إن القدرة على أسمى المشاعر هي في معظم الطبائع، نبتة رقي...
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: إن البشر يفقدون تطلعاتهم العالية لأنهم يفقدون أذواقه�...
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To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed,...
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Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ...
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Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ...
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfi...
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All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount o...
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of an...
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Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumst...
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The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or be...
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I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicke...
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The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ...
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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...
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All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never ...
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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people...
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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take ...
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentie...
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happ...
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In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and ...
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Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mec...
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Gdyby trzeba było podzielić firmę, to oddałbym majątek, halę produkcyjną i wyposażenie, a s...
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink ...
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now w...
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