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Letter "J" » John Stuart Mill Quotes
«Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.»
«The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»
«The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.»
«All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.»
«The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.»
«The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.»
«The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adding, cogent, restrict, restricting, unnecessarily
«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.»
«The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind»
«I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go»
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