Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“His aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius: he… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“My father’s moral inculcations were at all times mainly those of the Socratici viri; justice, temperance (to which he gave a very… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admission of secondary ones. To inform… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
