The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
JOHN STUART MILLThe liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
JOHN STUART MILLThere is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
JOHN STUART MILLThe pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILLThe idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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 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 MILLThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
JOHN STUART MILLA man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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 than their neighbors.
JOHN STUART MILLNext to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
JOHN STUART MILLAs often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
JOHN STUART MILLTo mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
JOHN STUART MILLThere are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
JOHN STUART MILLWhatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILLAll silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
JOHN STUART MILL