John Stuart Mill Quotes

The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

John Stuart Mill

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Theatre
  • Studying

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Exercise
  • New
  • Insecurity

• In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Animals

• Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Productive

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Become

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• This is where dreams-dreams, do you understand-come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Real

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• According to the Yankees owning one person makes you a scoundrel, but owning a nation makes you a colonial benefactor.

  

  Nelson Antonio Denis
  • Nation
  • Colonial
  • Scoundrel

• Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

  

  Neil Sheehan
  • World
  • God
  • Home

• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hope
  • Violence
  • Victory

• People are always alert to any change and skeptical by nature.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • People
  • Nature

• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Government
  • Womanhood
  • Refinement

• The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Victory
  • Triumph
  • Civil War