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One Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
- To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
- 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…
- The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by making any supposition,…
- 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…
- To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
- Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.
- It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.
- The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason…
- To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt…
- It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary…
- 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…
- Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope…
- There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.
- ...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,…
- There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances…
- All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
- 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.…
- The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
- In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth…
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