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Mankind Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to…
- The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
- The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most…
- The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
- Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political…
- It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living, that free scope…
- 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…
- 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…
- The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had…
- The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the…
- 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,…
- The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
- 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.
- Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always…
- The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt…
- I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that…
- Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement…
- Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in…
More Mankind Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their… — Douglas Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams