Freedom Quotes by John Stuart Mill

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

— John Stuart Mill

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

— John Stuart Mill

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

— John Stuart Mill

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

— John Stuart Mill

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

— John Stuart Mill

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

— John Stuart Mill

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

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So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

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“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.”

— John Stuart Mill

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

“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.”

— John Stuart Mill

...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it…

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of…

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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

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A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish…

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“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at…

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The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In…

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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to…

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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

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to…

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All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others,…

— John Stuart Mill

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

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

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not…

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There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding…

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In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the…

— John Stuart Mill

“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal subordination of one sex to the…

— John Stuart Mill

“Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that…

— John Stuart Mill

“John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament,…

— John Stuart Mill

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

“There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as…

— John Stuart Mill

“Proposed Roads to Freedom In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism.”

— John Stuart Mill

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is…

— John Stuart Mill

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

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

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it…

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And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,…

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“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own happiness in our own way, so long as we…

— John Stuart Mill

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