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 | "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is
worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal
safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless
made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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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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Found in the topic Machinery.
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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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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality." | |
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Found in the topic Good.
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| "Language is the light of the mind." | |
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Found in the topic Language.
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| "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives." | |
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Found in the topic Conservative.
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| "All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the
enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people." | |
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Found in the topic Existence.
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| "The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of
its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular
estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in
religion." | |
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Found in the topic Astonish.
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| "I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be
civilized." | |
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Found in the topic Civilization.
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| "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often
becomes the height of wisdom in the next." | |
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Found in the topic Generation.
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| "One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only
interests." | |
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Found in the topic Force.
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| "Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the
use of." | |
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Found in the topic Original.
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| "Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those
who possessed it?" | |
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Found in the topic Dictators.
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| "Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or
manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will
make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever
received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent
existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be
found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined
that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious." | |
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Found in the topic Name.
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| "The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or
collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their
number, is self-protection." | |
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Found in the topic 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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Found in the topic Individual.
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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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Found in the topic Politics.
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| "That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the
time." | |
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Found in the topic Indispensable.
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