All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite… — 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
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
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they… — 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
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what… — 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
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired… — 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
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of… — 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
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to… — 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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