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Tendencies Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,…
- The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions 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…
- The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.
- The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
- The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
- The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of…
- The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its…
- ‎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…
More Tendencies Quotes
- During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ...… — Antonin Artaud
- In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only… — John J. Pershing
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate… — Thomas Jefferson
- We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to… — Marianne Williamson
- There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not… — Dalai Lama
- I have an immature, Homer Simpson-like tendency to giggle when I say the words 'seminal fluids' in public. — Stephenie Meyer