John Stuart Mill Quotes

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• A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts… Casts
• Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not… Capability
• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking… Attacking
• It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. Act
• In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who… Amount
• Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. Barbarians
• In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… Abounded
• Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up… Absorbing
• The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure… Accepted
• The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or… Abuse
• Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with… All
• Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always… Allowed
• the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be… Acquired
• Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those… Due
• A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own… Been
• So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument… Argument
• The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt… Attempt
• ‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… Aristocracy
• There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else… Anyone
• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism. Crush

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