Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not… — 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
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 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
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of… — 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
