John Stuart Mill on custom
John Stuart Mill98 quotes“He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.”
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz A deep meaning often lies in old customs.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
Chuck BerryChuck Berry I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
Andy RooneyAndy Rooney The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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