John Stuart Mill Quotes

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

I think I'm still trying to be experimental on everything I ever do, but it's not as obviously way-out and experimental as what we were.

The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

Being a conservative can never be about simply an attitude. Being a conservative cannot simply be about how long you're willing to scream, how angry you're willing to be or how many names you're willing to call people. That is not conservative.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

Fundamentalism is another problem. I mean, Dawkins in a way is almost a fundamentalist himself, of another kind.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.