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Their Own Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
- It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the…
- Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not…
- Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always…
- Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement…
More Their Own Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu