Mill Quotes

152 quotes by 132 authors

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active… — Millicent Fawcett
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of… — Millicent Fawcett
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part of the founding… — Maurice Hayes
What's the Matter with the Mill? — Memphis Minnie
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can… — Oliver Burkeman
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831… — Ezra Cornell
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. — Stephen Hawking
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books. — Hans Rosling
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go… — Simon Newcomb
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill… — Ambrose Bierce
The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! — William Wordsworth
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread.… — Harold S. Kushner
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… — Charles Dickens
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as… — Jacques Barzun
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy… — Millicent Fawcett

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