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Few Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
- That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so…
- But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce…
- 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…
- 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…
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