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May Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
- 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 real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but…
- ...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.
- 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…
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
- The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This…
- Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have…
- A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being…
- What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is…
- 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…
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to…
- 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…
- 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…
- if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our…
- In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who…
- The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure…
- The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or…
- 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 idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh