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Men Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
- That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more…
- Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
- The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
- Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so…
- Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
- 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…
- The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
- 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…
- With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
- It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All…
- Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
- The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
- Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.
- Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make…
- Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.…
- Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for…
- 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…
- In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
- A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable…
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