There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — 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
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small… — 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
However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general,… — 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
