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General Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
- The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be…
- With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
- Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion…
- ...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,…
- There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.
- It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by…
- The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
- As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good,…
- A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts…
- Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up…
- ‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts…
More General Quotes
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour