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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
In it's narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, it's own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The doctrine called philosophical necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and disposition of the individual, the manner in which he will act might be unerringly inferred: that if we knew the person thoroughly, and knew all the inducements which are acting upon him, we could foretell his conduct with as much certainty as we can predict any physical event (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which must be, means that which will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds? (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
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 (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion (John Stuart Mill Quotes)