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Freedom5 quotes
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for...is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free. — John Stuart Mill · 1862Liberty consists in doing what one desires. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Political theory5 quotes
Liberty consists in doing what one desires. — John Stuart Mill · 1859A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill · 1867The 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 a sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill · 1859No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust. — John Stuart Mill · 1848Freedom of speech and expression4 quotes
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. — John Stuart Mill · 1859An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer. — John Stuart Mill · 1859If 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 justified in silencing mankind. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Individual freedom4 quotes
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Liberty consists in doing what one desires. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Oppression of women4 quotes
So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural. — John Stuart Mill · 1869The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement. — John Stuart Mill · 1869The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal. — John Stuart Mill · 1869What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Politics4 quotes
Liberty consists in doing what one desires. — John Stuart Mill · 1859A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The 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 a sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill · 1859No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust. — John Stuart Mill · 1848Marriage3 quotes
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house. — John Stuart Mill · 1869No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill · 1869The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Society and the individual3 quotes
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Every one who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Dissent2 quotes
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 justified in silencing mankind. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Gender relations2 quotes
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. — John Stuart Mill · 1869The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Libertarianism2 quotes
Liberty consists in doing what one desires. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The 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 a sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Autopilot1 quote
The 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 Mill · 1859Certainty1 quote
There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Conformity1 quote
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Conservatism1 quote
The Conservatives…being by the law of their existence the stupidest party. — John Stuart Mill · 1861Cowardice1 quote
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for...is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free. — John Stuart Mill · 1862Custom and convention1 quote
So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Education1 quote
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Equality1 quote
The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one. — John Stuart Mill · 1869Fighting for justice1 quote
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill · 1867God1 quote
I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go. — John Stuart Mill · 1865Goodness of God1 quote
I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go. — John Stuart Mill · 1865Government1 quote
The 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 a sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Inaction1 quote
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill · 1867Individualism1 quote
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Limits on freedom1 quote
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Limits on freedom of speech1 quote
An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Making arguments1 quote
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Man and animals1 quote
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. — John Stuart Mill · 1861Man as social animal1 quote
The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that...he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body. — John Stuart Mill · 1861