Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — 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
