John Stuart Mill was an eminent English philosopher, civil servant and political economist. He was renowned for advocating liberty, ideals on society, governance and women. He lived through the Industrial Revolution which changed everything for Britain and made it a World leader. Although Mill did not believe in direct democracy, he advocated a liberal society with opportunity. Mill is exalted for his three major works, ‘On Liberty’, ‘Utilitarianism’ and ‘The Subjection of Women’ which depict his ideology. He observed the life of women in society closely and advocated its rights and reforms. His ideas, writings, thoughts, sayings and works still affect the governance and society. Mill became the first ‘Member of Parliament’ from the ‘Liberal Party’, to be in favor of women’s rights and equality. We see the ideologies, writings, thoughts, sayings and quotes of this great philosopher come true in today’s world. A collection of John Stuart Mill quotes on utilitarianism, democracy, freedom of speech, liberty and intellect.
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 creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.
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A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…
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So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
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Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
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The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
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So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
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There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.
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The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.
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Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
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There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.
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I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seem good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
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...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still in the power of the executioner.
Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.
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Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness,
"a crisis in my mental history
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.
An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular.
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The yoke is naturally and necessarily humiliating to all persons, except the one who is on the throne, together with, at most, the one who expects to succeed to it.
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.
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The general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied
 was either an enemy or a bore. )
