61 Quotations by John Stuart Mill
- 41. The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
- 42. The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as ...
- 43. The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves t ...
- 44. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit ...
- 45. The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the ...
- 46. The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; p ...
- 47. The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case ...
- 48. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than hi ...
- 49. The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do; never does what he can do.
- 50. The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which ...
- 51. There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has bro ...
- 52. There are many truths the full meaning of which cannot be recognised until personal experience has b ...
- 53. There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou ar ...
- 54. Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on th ...
- 55. Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice g ...
- 56. To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
- 57. Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentie ...
- 58. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat ...
- 59. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if w ...
- 60. We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the op ...
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