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It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.


James Mill

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JOHN STUART MILL The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active...
JOHN STUART MILL He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any...
JOHN STUART MILL Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the ...
JOHN STUART MILL There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...
JOHN STUART MILL But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not ...
JOHN STUART MILL Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
JOHN STUART MILL A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has be...
JOHN STUART MILL Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or ...
JOHN STUART MILL The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral...
JOHN STUART MILL Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, ...
JOHN STUART MILL Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to h...
JOHN STUART MILL the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by ...
JOHN STUART MILL A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even fo...
JOHN STUART MILL Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be g...
JOHN STUART MILL It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are we...
JOHN STUART MILL Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and wha...
JOHN STUART MILL The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; p...
JOHN STUART MILL If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, man...
JOHN STUART MILL He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one...
JOHN STUART MILL Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their i...
JOHN STUART MILL There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportu...
JOHN STUART MILL Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.
JOHN STUART MILL No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, t...
JOHN STUART MILL If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mank...
JOHN STUART MILL Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called so...
JOHN STUART MILL That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings. The ...
JOHN STUART MILL Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in...
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