112 ordspråk av John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill föddes den 20 mai 1806 och dog den 8 mai 1873 - English economist
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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.

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

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.

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

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind

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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands, even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished

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