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Inspirational Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
- To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
- The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
- ... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.
- It is a law, that every event depends on the same law.
- Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
- Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint
- There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
- With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
- Language is the light of the mind
- Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
- Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
- Trade is a social act.
- Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
- There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.
- The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
- In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
- The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
- Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.
- He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
- A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
- All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
- One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
- Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
- I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento