"In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A……" — John Stuart Mill
"In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed."
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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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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in…
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading,…
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Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from…
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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted…
— William Howard Taft
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It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
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I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of…
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I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides…
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