Unearned increment. |
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. |
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. |
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. |
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. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; in a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. |
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. |
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. |
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. |
What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. |
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called |
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. |