Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — 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
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 social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear… — 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
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever… — 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
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