John Stuart Mill Quotes

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• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
• Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
• The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
• It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All…
• The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This…
• Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have…
• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.
• Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
• The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
• Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.
• Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make…
• All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
• The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
• Trade is a social act.
• All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that…
• Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
• To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing…
• There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.
• Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts…
• Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

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