The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent… — 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
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — 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 natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions… — 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
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension… — 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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