"Most persons have but a very moderate capacity……" — John Stuart Mill
"Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness."
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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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More Capability Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
— Alexis Arguello
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they…
— Teresa of Avila
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat…
— Tony Blair
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We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to…
— John Bolton
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
— Vanna Bonta
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Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the…
— John O. Brennan
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability…
— Pam Brown
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It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while…
— John Bruton
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are…
— Madeleine Albright
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what…
— Madeleine Albright
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that…
— Barbara Bush
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