"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom." — John Stuart Mill
"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom."
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John Stuart Mill
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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill
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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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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a…
— William S. Burroughs
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career…
— Patrick Lencioni
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it…
— Eric Hoffer
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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