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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 injunct...more

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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

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That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal subordination of one sex to the other -- is wrong ...more

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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or...more

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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...more

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Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibi...more

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There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it i...more

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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ t...more