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Nationalökonom, Herausgeber, Publizist, Philosoph (England, 1806 - 1873).

John Stuart Mill · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

John Stuart Mill wäre heute 217 Jahre, 11 Monate, 9 Tage oder 79.603 Tage alt.

Geboren am 20.05.1806 in London
Gestorben am 08.05.1873 in Avignon
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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• Style is the perfection of good sense.

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• The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of the opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

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• The Conservatives . . . being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.

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• The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

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• The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

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• The laws of most countries are far worse than the people who execute them, and many of them are only able to remain laws by being seldom or never carried into effect. If married life were all that it might be expected to be, looking to the laws alone, society would be a hell upon earth.

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• The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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• The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

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• The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

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• The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

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• The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes-the legal subordination of one sex to the other-is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

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• The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

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• The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.

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• The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

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• The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

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• Trade is a social act.

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• Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

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• Were there but a few hearts and intellects like hers this earth would already become the hoped-for heaven.

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• What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing-the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.

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