“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to… — 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
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
“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal subordination of one sex to the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies… — 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
