The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still… — 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
