The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in many… — 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
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — 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
“Who doubts that there may be great goodness, and great happiness, and great affection under the absolute government of a good man?… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged… — 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