Quotes by John Stuart Mill

history of this quote “We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for…is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “Liberty consists in doing what one desires.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.” by John Stuart Mill

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history of this quote “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 being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.” by John Stuart Mill

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