Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
JOHN STUART MILLLiberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
JOHN STUART MILLHe who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
JOHN STUART MILLThe pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILLAlthough it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
JOHN STUART MILLAll ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
JOHN STUART MILLThe love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
JOHN STUART MILLNo great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
JOHN STUART MILLActions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
JOHN STUART MILLTo refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
JOHN STUART MILLTo bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
JOHN STUART MILLSince the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
JOHN STUART MILLAll political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
JOHN STUART MILLI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
JOHN STUART MILLSolitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
JOHN STUART MILL