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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.
Category: Censorship Author: 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.
Category: Censorship Author: 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.
Category: Censorship Author: 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.
Category: Conformity Author: John Stuart Mill
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I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!"
Category: Curmudgeons Author: John Stuart Mill
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
Category: Happiness Author: John Stuart Mill
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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
Category: Happiness Author: 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.
Category: Technology Author: John Stuart Mill
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