John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Millwas an English philosopher, political economist, feminist, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century." Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth20 May 1806
religion wickedness christianity
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
demand commodity labor
The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
mean order government
In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
real men race
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.
math feelings analysis
The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.
inspirational men thinking
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
dream real successful
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
business social trade
Trade is a social act.
law people enforcement
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
art excellence trying
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
struggle rome liberty
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England
light mind language
Language is the light of the mind
courage sacrifice mind
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.