On LibertyJ. W. Parker and Son, 1859 - 207 pages |
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... affected by all the multifarious causes which influence their wishes in regard to the conduct of others , and which are as numerous as those which determine their wishes on any other subject . Sometimes : their reason — at other times ...
... affected by all the multifarious causes which influence their wishes in regard to the conduct of others , and which are as numerous as those which determine their wishes on any other subject . Sometimes : their reason — at other times ...
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... affects only himself , or if it also affects others , only with their free , voluntary , and undeceived consent and ... affect others through himself ; and the objection which may be grounded on this contingency , will receive ...
... affects only himself , or if it also affects others , only with their free , voluntary , and undeceived consent and ... affect others through himself ; and the objection which may be grounded on this contingency , will receive ...
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... affect the worth of the opinions , regarded in their influence on the character . The fact , however , is , that not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion , but too often the meaning of the opinion ...
... affect the worth of the opinions , regarded in their influence on the character . The fact , however , is , that not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion , but too often the meaning of the opinion ...
Page 76
... affect to be better than other people . The doctrines have no hold on ordinary believers — are not a power in their minds They have an habitual respect for the sound of them , but no feeling which spreads from the words to the things ...
... affect to be better than other people . The doctrines have no hold on ordinary believers — are not a power in their minds They have an habitual respect for the sound of them , but no feeling which spreads from the words to the things ...
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... affecting their good , by their mere displeasure , developes nothing valuable , except such force of character as may unfold itself in resisting the restraint . If acquiesced in , it dulls and blunts the whole nature . To give any fair ...
... affecting their good , by their mere displeasure , developes nothing valuable , except such force of character as may unfold itself in resisting the restraint . If acquiesced in , it dulls and blunts the whole nature . To give any fair ...
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Page 33 - 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.
Page 101 - An opinion that corndealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer, or when handed about among the same mob in the form of a placard.
Page 190 - A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.
Page 106 - He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
Page 24 - I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being.
Page 7 - Liberty : the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.!
Page 33 - But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion than when in opposition to it.
Page 66 - ... struck between two sets of conflicting reasons. Even in natural philosophy there is always some other explanation possible of the same facts; some geocentric theory instead of heliocentric, some phlogiston instead of oxygen; and it has to be shown why that other theory cannot be the true one; and until this is shown, and until we know how it is shown, we do not understand the grounds of our opinion.
Page 140 - ... unfair or ungenerous use of advantages over them; even selfish abstinence from defending them against injury— these are fit objects of moral reprobation, and, in grave cases, of moral retribution and punishment. And not only these acts, but the dispositions which lead to them, are properly immoral, and fit subjects of disapprobation which may rise to abhorrence.
Page 145 - I fully admit that the mischief which a person does to himself, may seriously affect, both through their sympathies and their interests, those nearly connected with him, and in a minor degree, society at large.