John Stuart Mill Quotes

In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. 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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• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
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• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• I have to be where the best work can be done.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
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• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'

  

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• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
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• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.

  

  Hannah Kearney
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• Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

  

  Gary Cole
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• Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.

  

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• 'I'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'

  

  A. A. Milne
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• Unfortunately, the latest events have shown that we don't have it.

  

  Igor Ivanov
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• In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
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• I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

  

  Antony Beevor
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• In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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