| |  | | | | | Quotations by author » John Stuart Mill
English exponent of Utilitarianism, ethical theorist, Philosopher, Economist and Logician. 1806-1873 | | Quotes: 81 - 94 of 94 | Pages: First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 | | | | | | They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time. | | Uncategorized | | | Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances; and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our o | | Uncategorized | | | Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times. | | Uncategorized | | | To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. | | Uncategorized | | | | | Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. | | Happiness; Mankind | | | War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. | | War | | | War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; in a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. | | Uncategorized | | | We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. | | Uncategorized | | | We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. | | Uncategorized | | | What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. | | Relationships | | | What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. | | Uncategorized | | | Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called | | Uncategorized | | | Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. | | God; Individuality; Mankind | | | | | | | |
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