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Society Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but…
- 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…
- Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
- But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of…
- 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…
- 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 amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so…
- The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
- The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which…
- 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…
- Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up…
- 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…
- Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any…
- ...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training…
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to…
More Society Quotes
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi