John Stuart Mill Quotes

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• I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings… Beings
• It is a law, that every event depends on the same law. Depends
• Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. All
• Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so… Doe
• The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason… Any
• Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve… Achieve
• The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… Answered
• Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. Bad
• Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the… All
• I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a… Apply
• To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt… Acting
• It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as… Adopted
• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The… Any
• Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the… Assembly
• Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. Benefit
• It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… Absurdity
• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger… Acuteness
• Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint Free
• There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides. Always Hope
• Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. Actual

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