Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. — 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
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — 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
