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Them 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 study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
- The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
- Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve…
- 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…
- They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount…
- Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make…
- In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in…
- 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…
- A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being…
- The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
- A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
- 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…
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to…
- I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce…
- 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…
- Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those…
- 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…
- There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else…
- Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary…
- God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
- Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster