John Stuart Mill Quotes

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

John Stuart Mill

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• Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Humanity

• Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Humanity
  • Daily
  • Dreams

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Rich

• A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Society
  • Humanity

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Children
  • Humanity
  • Service

• Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Humanity
  • Risk

• It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Power
  • Man

• The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Learn

• I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Humanity

• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• 'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Love
  • Change
  • Humanity

• Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children by rescuing them.' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Children
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Obedience

• I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Earth
  • Read
  • Scripture

• One of the things that I've urged the president-elect to do is to develop a strong working relationship with the intelligence community and I think it's important that Congress, on a bipartisan basis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Community

• All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Humanity
  • Obedience
  • Comprised