If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary 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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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 ...
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
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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