John Stuart Mill Quotes About Individuality

Quotes about: Individuality

• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Individuality, Liberty

  On Liberty ch. 3 (1859)

• In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Individuality, Development

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.62, OUP Oxford

• 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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Men, Names

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.62, OUP Oxford

• But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Earth, Salt

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.200, Hackett Publishing

• But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Excess, Individualism

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.197, Hackett Publishing

• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

• That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Success, Time, Work

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing

• We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

  John Stuart Mill

  Exercise, Individuality, Way

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.210, Hackett Publishing

• If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Liberty, Essentials

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

• The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Errors, Individuality

  On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

• In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Fullness Of Life, Individuality, Development

  John Stuart Mill (1954). “On Liberty: Representative Government ; The Subjection of Women : Three Essays”

• There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

  John Stuart Mill

  Strong, Average, Class

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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