John Stuart Mill Quotes

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

John Stuart Mill

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trouble
  • Face
  • Inside

• I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • God
  • Influence

• On eroding, ecologically degraded, increasingly toxic landscapes, worked by failing or subsidy-dependent farmers and by the cheap labor of migrants, we have erected the tottering tower of 'agribusiness,' which prospers and 'feeds the world' (incompletely and temporarily) by undermining its own foundations.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World

• Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Done
  • Stones

• Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Habits
  • Canadian

• I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Eyes
  • Boy
  • Leaving

• May those who witness the miracle be confirmed in their faith, and may you and your idols be forever disgraced!

  

  Saint Stephen
  • May
  • Faith
  • Forever

• I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School

• Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Pleasure

• I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Heart
  • Guest
  • Entrance

• I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Players

• Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good

• The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Mankind
  • Christianity
  • Wickedness