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Danger Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- ... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
- Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger…
- But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of…
- If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate…
- That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
- 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…
- 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…
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