John Stuart Mill Quotes

If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

John Stuart Mill

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• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.

  

  Larry Buchanan
  • Learn
  • Director
  • Early

• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Way
  • Tools
  • Depend

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

  

  Daniel O'Connell
  • Men
  • Live
  • May

• I write-down to speak-up.

  

  M. K. Asante
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Literature

• I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Gold-Medal
  • Olympic Champion
  • Ohio River

• People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

  

  Dilma Rousseff
  • Political
  • Opinion
  • Commitment

• If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • True
  • Opinion
  • Silence