"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
― John Stuart Mill
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Men
More From John Stuart Mill
- "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
- "The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."
- "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
More In Men
- "I have always supported measures and principles and not men."― Davy Crockett
- "Men are born to succeed, not to fail."― Henry David Thoreau
- "The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."― Andrew Carnegie