The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
JOHN STUART MILLThe most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
JOHN STUART MILLAll that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
JOHN STUART MILLHowever unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
JOHN STUART MILLLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
JOHN STUART MILLAs often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
JOHN STUART MILLThere is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
JOHN STUART MILLPhotography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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 MILLBad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
JOHN STUART MILLThe despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
JOHN STUART MILLIn the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
JOHN STUART MILLAsk yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILLOriginality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
JOHN STUART MILLThe only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
JOHN STUART MILLThose only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
JOHN STUART MILL