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Humans Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…
- Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
- And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
- The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
- I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings…
- 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…
- 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…
- The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
- The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
- The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
- Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for…
- In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth…
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is…
- As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing,…
- It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
- There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but…
- It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called…
- 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;…
- But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce…
- It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the…
- It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to…
- 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…
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong