John Stuart Mill Quotes

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

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• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • She
  • Girl
  • Feel

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • You
  • See

• It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Dying

• ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Ability
  • Will
  • Attack

• Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Strategy
  • Incentives

• I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Never
  • Easy
  • Broke

• The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'

  

  Eric Betzig
  • Time
  • Long
  • High

• Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.

  

  Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • History
  • Faith
  • Preparation

• Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Time
  • Men

• The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.

  

  Jesse Helms
  • Men
  • Free
  • Forever

• Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Men
  • Use
  • Judgement