A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions, but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Quotes By John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker, it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study, and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
“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.”
“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.”
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill Born May 20 1806 Died May 8 1873
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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