The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. John Stuart Mill More Quotes by John Stuart Mill More Quotes From John Stuart Mill It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal. John Stuart Mill granted logic men Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. John Stuart Mill obedience want men All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. John Stuart Mill enforcement law people When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. John Stuart Mill agriculture horse land Trade is a social act. John Stuart Mill trade business social A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse. John Stuart Mill purses peculiar taste There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism. John Stuart Mill independence political limits A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it. John Stuart Mill persistence men ideas With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her. John Stuart Mill faculty experience men 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 hard-work ambition country As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill fighting justice long The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one. John Stuart Mill virtue kind together Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it? John Stuart Mill domination possessed natural The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so. John Stuart Mill cease asks moments Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish. John Stuart Mill destiny class numbers If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it. John Stuart Mill support earth long It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object. John Stuart Mill countries-of-the-world important country The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. John Stuart Mill fidelity successful two Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man. John Stuart Mill sacrifice men long Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? John Stuart Mill use may men
