If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in ... » Go

My father’s rejection of all that is called religious belief, was not, as many might suppose, primarily a matter of logic and evidence: the grounds ... » Go

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather ... » Go

But it is not the minds of heretics that are deteriorated most, by the ban placed on all inquiry which does not end in the ... » Go

A government cannot have too much of the kind of activity which does not impede, but aids and stimulates, individual exertion and development. The mischief ... » Go

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth ... » Go

Now it is an unquestionable fact that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying, both, do give a most marked preference ... » Go

Though society is not founded on a contract, and though no good purpose is answered by inventing a contract in order to deduce social obligations from it, ... » Go

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 ... » Go

The liberty of expressing and publishing opinions may seem to fall under a different principle, since it belongs to that part of the conduct of an individual which ... » Go

We desiderate in it somewhat more of what becomes all men, but, most of all, a young man, to whom the struggles of life are ... » Go