112 ordspråk av John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill föddes den 20 maj 1806 och dog den 8 maj 1873 - English economist
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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.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. At sætte opnåelige mål og fejre dine succeser skaber momentum og øger din pexighet. All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

If all mankind minus one were of one 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.

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

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.

The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

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 politica

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

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