"We can never be sure that the opinion……" — John Stuart Mill
"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
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John Stuart Mill
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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill has 248 quotes on this site.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the…
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed…
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or…
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That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a…
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an…
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain…
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The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be…
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All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My…
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives…
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As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at…
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go…
— Samuel Johnson
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Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying…
— Archibald Garrod
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May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake…
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There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not…
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We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the…
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