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Great Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- 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 principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
- History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen…
- The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
- No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a…
- In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in…
- [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which…
- A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
- How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
- The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
- No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
- 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…
- The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;…
- A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with…
- Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
- No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to…
- The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom…
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