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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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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.
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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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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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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
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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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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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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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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
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