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John Stuart Mill Quotes

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
John Stuart Mill

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English Philosopher Quotes
Date of Birth:
May 20, 1806
Date of Death:
May 8, 1873
Nationality:
English
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Select John Stuart Mill Quotations:
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
John Stuart Mill

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.
John Stuart Mill

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mill

A man 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.
John Stuart Mill

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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

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.
John Stuart Mill


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