John Stuart Mill Quotes
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
Quotes to Explore
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I'm never satisfied.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
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Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.
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beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade
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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
