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John Stuart Mill Quotes
«The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
commonplaces, dictum, falsehoods, persecution, refute, refutes, refuting, triumphs
«As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ascendancy, renewing, terminate, terminated, terminates, terminating
«Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
flavor, protected, risked, sheltered
«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»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ennoble, ennobled, ennobles, ennobling, formation, formations, formed, free will, inspirit, inspiriting, Real Character
«All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
affected, conquest, consequence, institutions, originate, originate in, political institutions, previous, revolutions, subversion, subversions
«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.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
God,
Individuality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
despotism, enforcing, individuality, injunction, injunctions, professes
«A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics,
Stability
| Keywords:
elements, Party of, reform, stability
«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.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
concerted, disorganized, distracted, for the most part, frustrated, impress, inefficacious, instance, in advance, in the main, monuments, organized society, raise up, sadly, so as to, subsequent, theoretic, The Practice
«The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Authority,
Country,
Liberty,
Struggle
| Keywords:
conspicuous, feature, Greece, portions
