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John Stuart Mill Inspirational Quotes (187)

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The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
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The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.
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Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.
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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.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.
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Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
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Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
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