John Stuart Mill Quotes

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

John Stuart Mill

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• How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Army

• It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Explore

• It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Judge

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Style

• Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Content

• Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Great
  • Future
  • Commitment

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • Great
  • School

• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Great
  • Long
  • Desire

• When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

  

  M. Ward
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Power
  • High

• What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Great
  • Small
  • Quality

• It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Women
  • Support

• North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

  

  Barbara Demick
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  • Power
  • Black

• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Power
  • Society
  • Health

• I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Age

• I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Truth

• I have to do stand-up. I have to do something comedy-involved every day, or else I will lose my mind.

  

  Pete Davidson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Comedy

• Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Energy
  • Creation
  • Spirituality

• The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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  • Power
  • Evil