The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
JOHN STUART MILLThe struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
JOHN STUART MILLThe object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILLAll that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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 MILLLiberty consists in doing what one desires.
JOHN STUART MILLIn all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
JOHN STUART MILLHow can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
JOHN STUART MILLPersons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
JOHN STUART MILLIn all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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 MILLMen do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
JOHN STUART MILLA great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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.
JOHN STUART MILLNo slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
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