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Economics Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
- Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political…
- 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…
- It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.
- The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason…
- Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve…
- The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt…
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