A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,… — 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
To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that… — 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
Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have… — 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
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — 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 prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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
Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he… — 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
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's… — 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
The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other… — 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
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
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state… — 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
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world… — 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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