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«Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
conservatives, necessarily, stupid
«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.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
decayed, degraded, patriotic, state of war, ugliest
«The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
composing, individuals, in the long run, long run, The Long, The Long Run, The State
«Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.»
«In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Social service
| Keywords:
dares
«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.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
accountable, Cause of action, inaction, injury, justly
«The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Power,
Prevention
| Keywords:
interfere, only if, prevent
«That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
eccentric, eccentrics, Marks, The Chief
«Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
originality, unoriginal
«Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men»
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