What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — 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
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
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,… — 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
[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — 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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