“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Natural rights, nonsense; natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense, elevated nonsense, nonsense going on stilts.” — 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
“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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
If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who… — 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
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
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
If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth… — 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 consider it presumption in anyone to pretend to decide what women are or are not, can or cannot be, by natural… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Logic, according to the conception here formed of it, has no concern with the nature of the act of judging or believing;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings. The feeling of justice might 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
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
“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
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
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
“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
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
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
“[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
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
“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share
