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There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a religious bigot, when charged with disregarding the religious feelings of others, has been known to retort that they disregard his feelings, by persisting in their abominable worship or creed. But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the right owner to keep it. And a person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. It is easy for any one to imagine an ideal public, which leaves the freedom and choice of individuals in all uncertain matters undisturbed, and only requires them to abstain from modes of conduct which universal experience has condemned. But where has there been seen a public which set any such limit to its censorship? or when does the public trouble itself about universal experience. In its interferences with personal conduct it is seldom thinking of anything but the enormity of acting or feeling differently from itself; and this standard of judgment, thinly disguised, is held up to mankind as the dictate of religion and philosophy, by nine tenths of all moralists and speculative writers. These teach that things are right because they are right; because we feel them to be so. They tell us to search in our own minds and hearts for laws of conduct binding on ourselves and on all others. What can the poor public do but apply these instructions, and make their own personal feelings of good and evil, if they are tolerably unanimous in them, obligatory on all the world? ↗


— John Stuart Mill


#freedom #individuality #morality #philosophy #experience

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. ↗


— Tommy Smothers


#ideas #listen #only #people #right

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ↗


— Aristotle


#anything #greatest #honor #mind #never

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. ↗


— Matthew Arnold


#alive #being #creative #great #happiness

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. ↗


— Julian Assange


#any #caliber #disclosures #enormous #enough

WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical. ↗


— Julian Assange


#designed #ethical #free #make #more

I don't watch reality TV. ↗


— Dave Attell


#reality #reality tv #tv #watch

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community. ↗


— Joe Baca


#consider #i #improve #increase #priority

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here. ↗


— Margaret Atwood


#dealing #here #live #people #planet

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. ↗


— Hank Azaria


#actor #comedy #fan #growing #growing up






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