There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Weitere Zitate von John Stuart Mill
Zum Autor"Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime."
".All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the current sentimentalities that it is their nature, to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but their affections. - The Subjection of Women."
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
"If all mankind minus one were of one 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."
"Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
"The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement."