That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to the other — is wrong i… - John Stuart Mill

When the “sacredness of property” is talked of, it should always be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species.

To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as the time approaches when all selfish interests must be terminated by death: while those who leave after them objects of personal affection, and especially those who have also cultivated a fellow-feeling with the collective interests of mankind, retain as lively an interest in life on the eve of death as in the vigour of youth and health.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.