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
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid.… — 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
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of… — 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
“It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of… — 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
In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Every function superadded to those already exercised by the government causes its influence over hopes and fears to be more widely diffused,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament,… — 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
The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Every one knows how absurd it would be to infer from what a man is or does when in a private station,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the… — 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
