{"author":"John Stuart Mill","author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill","total_quotes":124,"quotes":[{"text":"Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["belief","religion"],"id":2059,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.  Dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["capacity","enjoyment","fool","happiness","imperfections","philosophy","satisfaction","socrates"],"id":2294,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position as at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party . . . There is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power.'John Stuart Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 68 ).","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["altruism","conservative","liberal","libertarian","politics","progressive","selfishness"],"id":3527,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["stupid","people "],"id":3713,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["good things","originality "],"id":3785,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["god","wickedness"],"id":7106,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["liberty","majority-v-minority","philosophy"],"id":8191,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":".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.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["feminism"],"id":9232,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["mankind","opinion","person "],"id":9717,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"},{"text":"The person 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.","author":"John Stuart Mill","tags":["safety","politics","men "],"id":10406,"author_id":"John+Stuart+Mill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":124,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}