The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. — 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 people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no… — 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
