John Stuart Mill Quotes
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to…
- He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
- Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to…
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is…
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in…
- One person with a belief is equal to force of ninety-nine who have only one interest.
- Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin…