Capability Quote by John Stuart Mill

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

— John Stuart Mill

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

— John Stuart Mill

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

— John Stuart Mill

“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to…

— John Stuart Mill

All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which…

— John Stuart Mill

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is…

— John Stuart Mill

“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who…

— John Stuart Mill

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for…

— John Stuart Mill

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

— John Stuart Mill

The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.

— John Stuart Mill

“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is…

— John Stuart Mill

This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which…

— John Stuart Mill