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Things Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ...…
- 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…
- The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be…
- 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…
- 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…
- If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate…
- 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…
- This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly…
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing…
- The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
- All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
- Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
- The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not…
- All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of…
- 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…
- The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure…
- 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…
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