John Mill Quotes (25 Quotes)

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per.

The 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.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences

That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public

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.

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

A person may suffer very severe penalties at the hands of others, for faults which directly concern only himself.

What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.

The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them

Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of free will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our o

A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind

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

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it

Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present

desires or fears for themselves - their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself

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.

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.