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Character Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
- ... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our…
- It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living, that free scope…
- All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that…
- Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.
- The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and…
- All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color…
- 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…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
- A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own…
- Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any…
- 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…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
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- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. — John C. Maxwell
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain