John Stuart Mill...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered. ✨ John Stuar… ▶371Reflection
John Stuart MillIs there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? ✨ John Stuart Mill (2008). Three Essays on Religion, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.371Death
John Stuart MillWhat is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1870). The Subjection of Women, p.48, Ha… ▶351Sadness
John Stuart MillIt is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to… ▶351HumanityLife
John Stuart MillThere is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the examp… ▶363HumanityLifePolitics
John Stuart MillBut society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences… ▶341Humanity
John Stuart MillThe study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.342Thought
John Stuart MillThe only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obta… ▶353Humanity
John Stuart MillSo long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it. ✨ John Stuart Mil… ▶342Reflection
John Stuart MillThe peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion… ▶375HumanityTruth
John Stuart MillWar is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. ✨ Th… ▶364PoliticsThought
John Stuart MillAll that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1864). On Liberty, p.14342HumanityLife
John Stuart MillWhat distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.365Time
John Stuart MillThat a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.355Humanity
John Stuart MillTo tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more t… ▶355HumanityPhilosophyPolitics
John Stuart MillNo one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. ✨ John Stuart Mill (… ▶355Thought
John Stuart MillWe have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ✨ John Stuart… ▶311Reading
John Stuart MillA person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ✨ John Stuart Mill, G. W. … ▶355PoliticsThought
John Stuart MillIn 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 of opinion is such as to make ecce… ▶312HumanityTime
John Stuart MillThe spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1865). On Liberty, p.41301Humanity
John Stuart MillBut these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is the… ▶367HumanityLifeReading
John Stuart MillThe tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answerin… ▶345HumanityLifeThought
John Stuart MillMen and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. ✨ J… ▶323HumanityLifePolitics
John Stuart MillPleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill, … ▶345Sadness
John Stuart MillThat so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mil… ▶378Time
John Stuart MillMen do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.301Sadness
John Stuart MillEverything must be free to be written and published without restraint. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill, … ▶334Love
John Stuart MillWhen the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1871). Priciples of POlitical Econ… ▶291Politics
John Stuart MillIt is a law, that every event depends on some law. ✨ The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill.302Politics
John Stuart MillThose only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursu… ▶291HumanityPoliticsThought
