Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is,… — 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
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 Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — 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 chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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