The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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John Stuart Mill

English - Philosopher May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873

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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

With the author

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

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I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.

If I have the chance, I would like to write an emotional, sad ballad.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

It wasn't until the birth of my daughter that I realised I had to get it together. I had my second chance in life to do what I'm doing, which is inspire people to not give up.

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