Maxioms by John Stuart Mill
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.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will read more
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
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.
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses
are kept, a cow is kept for read more
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses
are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if read more
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
