On Liberty: The Subjection of WomenH. Holt, 1895 - 394 páginas |
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... prefer to bear almost any amount of social evil , rather than add one to the departments of human interests amena . ble to governmental control . And men range themselves on one or the other side in any par- ticular case , according to ...
... prefer to bear almost any amount of social evil , rather than add one to the departments of human interests amena . ble to governmental control . And men range themselves on one or the other side in any par- ticular case , according to ...
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... prefer ; but very rarely on account of any opinion to which they consistently adhere , as to what things are fit to be done by a government . And it seems tc me that , in consequence of this absence of rule or principle , one side is at ...
... prefer ; but very rarely on account of any opinion to which they consistently adhere , as to what things are fit to be done by a government . And it seems tc me that , in consequence of this absence of rule or principle , one side is at ...
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... prefer- ence , the cases which are least favorable to me -in which the argument against freedom of opinion , both on the score of truth and on that of utility , is considered the strongest . Let the opinions impugned be the belief in a ...
... prefer- ence , the cases which are least favorable to me -in which the argument against freedom of opinion , both on the score of truth and on that of utility , is considered the strongest . Let the opinions impugned be the belief in a ...
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... preferring either opinion . The rational po- sition for him would be suspension of judg- ment , and unless he contents himself with that , he is either led by authority , or adopts , like the generality of the world , the side to which ...
... preferring either opinion . The rational po- sition for him would be suspension of judg- ment , and unless he contents himself with that , he is either led by authority , or adopts , like the generality of the world , the side to which ...
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... prefer ? or , what would suit my character and disposition ? or , what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair play , and enable it to grow and thrive ? They ask themselves , what is suitable to my position ? what is usually ...
... prefer ? or , what would suit my character and disposition ? or , what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair play , and enable it to grow and thrive ? They ask themselves , what is suitable to my position ? what is usually ...
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Página 23 - The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control...
Página 24 - 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.
Página 204 - ... a state which dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished...
Página 28 - Secondly, the principle requires liberty of tastes and pursuits ; of framing the plan of our life to suit our own character; of doing as we like, subject to such consequences as may follow: without impediment from our fellow-creatures, so long as what we do does not harm them, even though they should think our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong.
Página 126 - The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally and temporarily with the opponents of improvement; but the only unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals.
Página 101 - An opinion that corn-dealers 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.
Página 24 - Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.
Página 68 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Página 105 - The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used.
Página 95 - And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience.