Social Quotes by John Stuart Mill

Trade is a social act.

— John Stuart Mill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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