The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some antecedent, upon the existence of which it is invariably and unconditionally consequent.
John Stuart MillMarriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
John Stuart MillThe study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
John Stuart MillThe idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.
John Stuart MillIn 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 MillUnfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.
John Stuart Mill