"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in……" — John Stuart Mill

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

— John Stuart Mill

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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill has 248 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we…
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we…
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the…
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed…
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or…
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a…
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an…
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to…
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain…

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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they… — Isaiah Berlin
War is the business of barbarians. — Napoleon Bonaparte
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. — Jack Abramoff
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children are gleeful barbarians. — Joe Morgenstern
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians. — Pope Urban II
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. — Oscar Wilde
Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the… — Alexander the Great
Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other… — Alexander the Great
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish… — Louis Kronenberger
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power… — George Lucas
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among… — Confucius

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