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.

John Stuart Mill
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Before, I wanted to say: "I found love! " But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. - C. Joybell C.

  2. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen

  3. Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want... - C. Joybell C.

  4. Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person. - Nicholas Sparks

  5. I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change - Karl Lagerfeld

More Quotes By John Stuart Mill
  1. 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 a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or...

  2. It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But...

  3. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary 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.

  4. In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny,...

  5. The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence...

Related Topics