Quotes About John Stuart Mill

Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect are assholes, it's exactly the sort of thing an asshole is apt to say. (183)

admix of superiority and ressentiment. Thus, in the same way that so many of the classics of modern English literature are in fact Irish, so some of the greatest achievements of English-language political and social thought since the Enlightenment, from David Hume to Adam Smith and on to John Stuart Mill and beyond, were actually Scottish.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.