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Mean 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…
- I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a…
- In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
- 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…
- Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
- All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of…
- I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and…
- 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…
- Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with…
- There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else…
- So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
- 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…
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