It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object. John Stuart Mill More Quotes by John Stuart Mill More Quotes From John Stuart Mill All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good. John Stuart Mill errors evil men The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. John Stuart Mill perception choices feelings Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had. John Stuart Mill light taken people The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor. John Stuart Mill commodity demand labor There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides. John Stuart Mill listening inspirational people There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience. John Stuart Mill marketing book way It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. John Stuart Mill dissatisfied satisfied pigs The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth. John Stuart Mill intellectual philosophy inspire Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds John Stuart Mill prejudice truth feelings 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. John Stuart Mill doe may firsts There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life. John Stuart Mill atheism example practice The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them. John Stuart Mill concessions motive advantage The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us. John Stuart Mill done challenges giving In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race. John Stuart Mill inspirational men thinking They who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them; and what we can achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess than on the use we make of our time. John Stuart Mill opportunity time motivational But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. John Stuart Mill individualism excess individuality ...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes? John Stuart Mill words-of-wisdom principles justice 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. John Stuart Mill argument odds doe The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought. John Stuart Mill men science thinking 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 causes two science
