Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill -
On Liberty (1859)
106 Sourced Quotes
View all John Stuart Mill Quotes
Source
Report...
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
John Stuart Mill
Source
Report...
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
John Stuart Mill
Source
Report...
Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
John Stuart Mill
Source
Report...
The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
John Stuart Mill
Source
Report...
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.
John Stuart Mill
Source
Report...
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.
John Stuart Mill
1
2
3
4
5
Quote of the day
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe
John Stuart Mill
Creative Commons
Born:
May 20, 1806
Died:
May 8, 1873
(aged 66)
More about John Stuart Mill...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes