Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

John Stuart Mill in On Liberty
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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

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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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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Stuart Mill in Defence of Hedonism
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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