"The time appears to me to have come……" — John Stuart Mill
"The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known."
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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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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
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I have to recognize that I am agnostic.
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
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I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith…
— William Jennings Bryan
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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist…
— Isaac Asimov
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The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests…
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
— Ernest Renan
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