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

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John Stuart Mill wäre heute 218 Jahre, 10 Monate, 15 Tage oder 79.943 Tage alt.

Geboren am 20.05.1806 in London
Gestorben am 08.05.1873 in Avignon
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• As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

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• Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

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• Detention by the State of the unearned increment of rent.

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• Everyone who desires power, desires it most over those who are nearest to him, with whom his life is passed, with whom he has most concerns in common, and in whom any independence of his authority is oftenest likely to interfere withhis individual preferences.

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• History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.

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• How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

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• Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair of boots to fit him, unless they are either made to his measure, or he has a whole warehouseful to choose from: and is it easier to fit him with a life than with a coat, or are human beings more like one another in their whole physical and spiritual conformation than in the shape of their feet? If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model.

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• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.

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• I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.

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• If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

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• If we may be excused the antithesis, we should say that eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard.

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• In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.

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• In this age the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

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• Language is the light of the mind.

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• Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognising the relations they find already existing between individuals. They convert what was a mere physical fact into a legal right, give it the sanction of society, and principally aim at the substitution of public and organised means of asserting and protecting these rights, instead of the irregular and lawless conflict of physical strength.

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• Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

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• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each other to live as seems good to the rest.

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• No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

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• No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

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• Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

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