John Stuart Mill ( 10 of 19 )
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and read more
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as read more
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic read more
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
