"A person's taste is as much his own……" — John Stuart Mill
"A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse."
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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill has 248 quotes on this site.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the…
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed…
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or…
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That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a…
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an…
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain…
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could…
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
— Jeff Bingaman
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
— Aeschylus
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what…
— Niels Bohr
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality.…
— Bono
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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with…
— George W. Bush
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