A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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JOHN STUART MILL Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount o...
JOHN STUART MILL It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of an...
JOHN STUART MILL Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumst...
JOHN STUART MILL The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or be...
JOHN STUART MILL I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicke...
JOHN STUART MILL The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ...
JOHN STUART MILL No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
JOHN STUART MILL All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...
JOHN STUART MILL All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...
JOHN STUART MILL Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never ...
JOHN STUART MILL Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people...
JOHN STUART MILL All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take ...
JOHN STUART MILL We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...
JOHN STUART MILL If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
JOHN STUART MILL Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentie...
JOHN STUART MILL Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happ...
JOHN STUART MILL In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and ...
JOHN STUART MILL Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mec...
JOHN STUART MILL Gdyby trzeba było podzielić firmę, to oddałbym majątek, halę produkcyjną i wyposażenie, a s...
JOHN STUART One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have
only interest.
JOHN STEWART MILL Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink ...
JOHN STUART BLACKIE Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now w...
JOHN STUART BLACKIE