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John Stuart Mill Inspirational Quotes (187)

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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
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The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
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On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.
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All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.
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God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.
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