There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.
John Stuart MillAs often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
John Stuart MillThe legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
John Stuart MillAmong the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
John Stuart Mill