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Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

John Stuart Mill

Destiny, People, Democracy

John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.287, Oxford University Press, USA

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

John Stuart Mill

Destiny, Men, Purpose

John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.11

It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain to be either proved or disproved by.. .comparison with observed facts.

John Stuart Mill

Science, Destiny, Facts

John Stuart Mill (1856). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.293

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

John Stuart Mill

Destiny, Class, Numbers

John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.314