John Stuart Mill Quotes

“The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:love freedom power

“There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying—and no means by which any one else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:happiness

“Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

topic:truth knowledge feelings consciousness

“What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:women

“I am far from pretending that wives are in general no better treated than slaves; but no slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:women slavery

“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:women marriage slavery

“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:freedom want

“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:freedom desire independence liberty

“Yet command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:power society equality obedience

“One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

― John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government

topic:power belief interest

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