Quotes by Mill, John Stuart

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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of government >>

Quotations about Opinions

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are >>

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions. >>

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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.

Mill, John Stuart