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John Stuart Mill quotes

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“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“I am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but 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 Subjection of Women
“Stupidity is much the same all the world over.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.” John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
“In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“The second general division of names is into concrete and abstract. A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name is a name which stands for an attribute of a thing.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“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,...” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying—and no means by which any one else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“Yet command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“The actual existence of the subject of the proposition is therefore only apparently, not really, implied in the predication, if an essential one: we may say, A ghost is a disembodied spirit, without believing in ghosts.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“A concise mode of expressing the same meaning is, that inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species, but not necessary to it.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“Names have been further distinguished into univocal and æquivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive

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The Subjection of Women (14)
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (10)
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