The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put...
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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 hi...
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirabl...
The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.
He who let's 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
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not su...
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.
I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every...
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
.all the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the current sentimentalities that it is their nature, to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no...
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.