"It is not because men's desires are strong……" — John Stuart Mill

"It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak."

— John Stuart Mill

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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill

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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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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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