Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew… — 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
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — 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
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement,… — 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 only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — 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
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly… — 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
