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Quote from John Stuart Mill,


"There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy."


By:

John Stuart Mill (more quotes by John Stuart Mill or books by/about John Stuart Mill)


(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist

Source:

On Liberty, 1859

Categories:

Free Thought, Heresy, Oppression, Reason, Speech

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