John Stuart Mill Quotes

“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

“It is part of the irony of life, that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence,...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:power

“Stupidity is much the same all the world over.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:stupidity world

“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and Belief is a kind of thought. Actions are merely volitions followed by an effect.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

topic:action feelings

“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

topic:meaning

“The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

topic:philosophy theory

“We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:justice morality

“In every respect the burthen is hard on those who attack an almost universal opinion.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:enemy opinion

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

topic:feelings opinion

“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians.”

― John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic

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