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People 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…
- The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
- To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty…
- 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.
- Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political…
- There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
- 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…
- All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
- All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that…
- When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good…
- The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had…
- Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
- The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
- A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- 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…
- A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts…
- Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle