Positive atheism Quotes by John Stuart Mill

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of…

— John Stuart Mill

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

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

— John Stuart Mill

Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of…

— John Stuart Mill

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

— John Stuart Mill

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world…

— John Stuart Mill

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

— John Stuart Mill

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

— John Stuart Mill

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

Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be…

— John Stuart Mill

It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history,…

— John Stuart Mill

The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they…

— John Stuart Mill

He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and…

— John Stuart Mill

What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not…

— John Stuart Mill

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