The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILLThe pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILLOne person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
JOHN STUART MILLA great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
JOHN STUART MILLI did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
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 MILLThe worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
JOHN STUART MILLThere are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
JOHN STUART MILLThe fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
JOHN STUART MILLAll that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
JOHN STUART MILLIn all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
JOHN STUART MILLA democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
JOHN STUART MILLThe despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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 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 MILL