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Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign. — John Stuart Mill

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so. — Bertolt Brecht

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. — John Stuart Mill

That so few dare be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time. — John Stuart Mill

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel. — Colin MacInnes

They say money rule the world, you can't pay God with it — Meek Mill

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. — John Stuart Mill

It was a running joke; everyone was aware of how ridiculous the rumor mill was, and yet they all shamelessly participated in it. — Jamie McGuire

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. — James Mill

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. — John Stuart Mill

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself. — John Stuart Mill

Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides. — John Stuart Mill

The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. — John Stuart Mill

We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not possess it. — John Stuart Mill

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful. — John Stuart Mill

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice. — John Stuart Mill

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John 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 Mill

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill. — Jane Green

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. — John Stuart Mill

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. — John Stuart Mill

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away. — Victor Hugo

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure. — Millicent Fawcett

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. — John Stuart Mill

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. — John Stuart Mill

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill

A Paper Town is a town that's got a paper mill on it. — John Green

I never wanted to be run of the mill. — Barbara Jordan

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. — John Stuart Mill

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. — John Stuart Mill

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! — William Wordsworth

I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

It is curious that Mill makes very little mention of the police as a danger to liberty. In our day they are its worst enemy ... — Bertrand Russell

is not to be expected that there should be agreement about the definition of any thing, until there is agreement about the thing itself. — John Stuart Mill

Imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the — John Stuart Mill

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions. — John Stuart Mill

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure. — Albert Schweitzer

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it. — John Stuart Mill

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought. — John Stuart Mill

Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. — John Milton

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe. — Meek Mill

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

The Rolls Royce was the real first car. It wasn't the first new car I got, but it was the first real car I bought that's like, 'Wow, I got this.' — Meek Mill

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for. — Meek Mill

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. — James Mill

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect. — James Nasmyth

The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor. — John Stuart Mill

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. — John Stuart Mill

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything's going right. — Meek Mill

There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery. — John Stuart Mill

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them. — John Stuart Mill

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed. — John Stuart Mill

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides. — John Stuart Mill

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory. — Donald Ray Pollock

The not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill. — Ellen Hopkins

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that. — Meek Mill

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas. — John Stuart Mill

Proposed Roads to Freedom
In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism. — John Stuart Mill

If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at. — Meek Mill

If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it. — Sara Sheridan

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. — John Stuart Mill

We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice. — John Stuart Mill

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted. — Rudolf Arnheim

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person. — Barbara Jordan

The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification. — John Stuart Mill

One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends. — Meek Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. — John Stuart Mill

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. — John Stuart Mill

Trade is a social act. — John Stuart Mill

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. — John Stuart Mill

Daddy, will you take me to the mill, again? — Trenton Lee Stewart

Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. — Meek Mill

I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running. — Meek Mill

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step. — John Stuart Mill

Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near. — Samuel Rogers

It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'. — John Stuart Mill

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. — John Stuart Mill

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target. — David H. Hackworth

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest. — John Stuart Mill

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism. — John Stuart Mill

The besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole. — John Stuart Mill

work and carried on until she was seventy-two. Grandad worked in a nearby mill — Beverley Callard

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life. — Meek Mill

And all he wants is to throw a rager in your sugar mill?" Then she frowned. "Wow. That sounded raunchy. — Kresley Cole

Cressbrook Mill was operated mostly by orphans who were treated worse than abysmally. — Bill Bryson

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't. — John Stuart Mill

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there. — Victor Hugo

Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself. — Annie Hughes

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. — John Stuart Mill