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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill föddes den 20 mei 1806 och dog den 8 mei 1873 - English economist
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion

World

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time.

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

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.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Unearned increment.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; in a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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.

What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.

Det är bättre att vara en missnöjd människa än ett nöjt svin.

Författningen är ett verktyg för att säkerställa att de härskande inte missbrukar sin makt.

Demokrati och Statsskick

Det eviga hindret för mänskligt framsteg är vanan.

Den evige forhindring for menneskeligt fremskridt er vanen.

Progress

En människa med en tro har samma styrka som 99 människor som bara har ett intresse.

Én person med en tro har samme styrke som nioghalvfems mennesker, der blot har en interesse.

Belief

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