John Mill Quotes on Society & Civilization (3 Quotes)

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec

Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other that is to say, when society is at an end.