Quotes of: Mill Keyword

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Dean Stanley

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

Emily Murphy

There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Jacques Lacan

Mrs. Mills: Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead.

The Others

Mrs. Mills: Death of a loved one can lead people to do the strangest things.

The Others

Mrs. Mills: Shall I make us a nice cup of tea, Ma'am ?

The Others

David Mills: You're no messiah. You're a movie of the week. You're a fucking t-shirt, at best.

Se7en

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Hal Borland

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Rupert Sheldrake

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Thomas Sowell

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Anna Freud

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Anna Deavere Smith

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

Benjamin Jowett

Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Frans de Waal

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Gary Hamel

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Thomas Sowell

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'

Thomas Sowell

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead