Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
John Stuart Mill in Utilitarianism, What Utilitarianism Is (1861)
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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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.
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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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.
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
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