Quotes by John Stuart Mill

“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.”

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“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.”

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“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.”

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“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

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“The Conservatives…being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.”

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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.”

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“No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.”

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Labor-Saving Devices Don’t Save Labor. They Increase It

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