101 ordspråk av John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself
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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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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.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences
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Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other — that is to say, when society is at an end.
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.
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desires or fears for themselves - their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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