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• Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds

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  Truth, Feelings, Prejudice

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.95

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• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

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  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Time, Opportunity

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867”, p.47

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• Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.

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  Government, Office, Watches

  Considerations on Representative Government ch. 5 (1861)

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• The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

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  Religious, Evil, Religion

  "Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography".

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• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

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• If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

  John Stuart Mill

  Important, Devil, Opponents

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; the latter, of Inference; the latter of Inference. The truths known by Intuition are the original premisses, from which all others are inferred.

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  Truth, Two, Intuition

  John Stuart Mill (2006). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill”

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• The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

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  Philosophy, Reason, Theory

  John Stuart Mill (1856). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.448

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• The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.

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  Wisdom, Two, Unity

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.466

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• Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

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  Intellectual, Intelligence, Veins

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.

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  Police, Humanity, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

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  Men, Want, Obedience

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

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  Philosophical, Perfection, Would Be

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Utilitarianism”, p.25

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• So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

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  Country, Independent, Peculiar

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.251, VM eBooks

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• Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

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  Government, Function, Participation

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.94, John Stuart Mill

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• It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by.. .comparison with observed facts.

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  Science, Destiny, Facts

  John Stuart Mill (1856). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.293

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• A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

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  Psychological, Difficulty, Impossibility

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• Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.

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  Atheism, Development, Enabling

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Being three Essays on Religion. With introductory notice by Helen Taylor”, p.100

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• It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.

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  Christian, Teaching, Men

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• He who cannot by his labor suffice for his own support has no claim to the privilege of helping himself to the money of others. By becoming dependent on the remaining members of the community for actual subsistence, he abdicates his claim to equal rights for them I other respects.

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  Rights, Support, Community

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.385, OUP Oxford

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• There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Book, Marketing, Way

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• ...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?

  John Stuart Mill

  Justice, Words Of Wisdom, Principles

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P., on the Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise: Spoken in the House of Commons, May 20th, 1867”, p.5

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• What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

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  Country, Liberty, Citizens

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women ... Third Edition”, p.180

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