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Ideas Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- 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…
- It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary…
- A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets…
- Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the…
- This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly…
- The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth…
- God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
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