Quotes about John Stuart Mill

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in...

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of...

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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience...

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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense...

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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the...

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil...

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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and...

#John Stuart Mill