philosophical statements you agree with

Noor

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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill
 
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill

J S Mill is so damn sexy

nest to Payne he is the sexiest of the founding fathers----
 
“Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.”

- Ashleigh Brilliant
 
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle
 
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill

The original liberal, at least of the English speaking variety.
 
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Ionesco
 
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
J S Mill is so damn sexy

nest to Payne he is the sexiest of the founding fathers----

I may be corrected but John Stuart Mill was not one of the founding fathers (of USA). He was born in the 1800's well after the war of independence and was an englishman through and through.
 
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
 
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