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mrrutherruther: If you’re into free speech, it’s crazy to be reflexively opposed to someone receiving the free speech of others, coming to a greater understanding or awareness, and adding clarity to their point in response. This is kinda the basis of John Stuart Mill’s argument for free speech.
herallegory: John Stuart Mill probably let his kids stay up past their bedtime for the sake of individual liberty.
JoyPeerless: John Stuart Mill himself wrote quite a lot about the distinction in his original
QcDailyQuote: Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amo...
KarandaQld: He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill, who delivered 1867 inaugural address
YifanWang1217: I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill
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Jeff_Browndyke: “Bad (persons) need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good (persons) should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill
walkerhuffman70: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
JWagstaffeLxNx: The “free marketplace of ideas” espoused by Holmes and John Stuart Mill is the ideal, reasoning that “truth will emerge from the competition of ideas in free, transparent public discourse.”
AnneSAndersen: He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” - John Stuart Mill
mcshivanisen: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- John Stuart Mill
Nate_McMurray: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― John Stuart Mill, 1867
DonPJenn: "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary 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."
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
meadowgould47: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
cooljeaniusbot: Here's a legislation idea for my creator (or anyone else, for that matter): do a bill to enact acknowledging that actual classical liberals like John Stuart Mill had socialist tendencies
junepierce58: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
jgehrwashere: “To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”
John Stuart Mill
leylastokes2: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
JoshuaTLevine: From John Stuart Mill, talking about the dangers of social tyranny and socially-imposed restrictions on speech being potentially more dangerous than even government restrictions. Now moving to the tension of “identities and opinions” and how it impacts free speech and discourse.
morris56vay: 360 John Stuart Mill Quotes & Sayings : A Compendium of Wise Words on Utilitarianism, Freedom of Speech, Democracy, Liberty, OMSIEKA
CyberRuthenia: Why is politics still a debate? Everybody would be a liberal if they only read On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
YifanWang1217: I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill
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realllinaa: As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill
noahkeith87: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
zaragarrett31: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
linaritterwiza: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
AgoraCrops: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” John Stuart Mill, 1867.
williechunderan: "A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another."
~ John Stuart Mill
Jeetstorms: 1. Some thoughts on Switzerland, Ursula Le Guin, the political economy of Playboy, John Stuart Mill & the white working class
cmonmanbot: john stuart-mill? c'mon man. come on.
ThatoCFA: "Panics do not destroy capital. They merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works."
- John Stuart Mill, 1868
tpmquote: Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions of customs of other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.--John Stuart Mill
DaniloOnorino: John Stuart Mill opens his essay by discussing the historical "struggle between authority and liberty, describing the tyranny of government, which, in his view, needs to be controlled by the liberty of the citizens.
jesterxl: The Swagger angle is hard too. Writing it, generating swagger docs, THEN having that as a test harness is super valid and helpful. However, that's "YAML in your comments". Going through hell for a pretty good end result workflow reminds me of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism.
ZitaVice: Best political science Books
1 The Republic
2 on liberty
3 The teory7 of Justice
4 The human condition
5 Anarchy, State, and Utopia
6 Law's Empire
7 Democracy And Education
8 John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
9 The Origins of Totalitaria
10 Why Nations Fail
noahkeith87: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
komrade_kapital: “He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.” -John Stuart Mill
hamvraag: “If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.”
~ John Stuart Mill
libdemlife: “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary 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.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
MinchaBrian: “Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?”
John Stuart Mill
CerebralWisdom: A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another. - John Stuart Mill
TRAVLIC: Discourse about a range of matters in the arena of politics in Australia would be better if people had a foundational understanding of political philosophy.
John Stuart Mill's On Liberty would be a start.
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CerebralWisdom: The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. - John Stuart Mill
varunnarayanan1: The big thing that we know from John Stuart Mill is that democracy is government by discussion, and, if you make discussion fearful, you are not going to get a democracy, no matter how you count the votes.
CannotBeJustMe: Today's reminder:
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." - John Stuart Mill
Constantinebuio: John Stuart Mill himself wrote quite a lot about the distinction in his original
Falanastus: Once upon a time in the 1700s, there were two bright and witty British blokes named Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
Falanastus: Bentham's protégé and fellow philosophical party animal, John Stuart Mill, felt that his mentor's approach to utilitarianism was a bit, well, simplistic. Mill was like, "Hey, Bentham, happiness isn't just about adding and subtracting, you know?
philosophersmag: I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.--John Stuart Mill
faultymoonpie: The person 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.
John Stuart Mill
christianbok: Download ON LIBERTY by John Stuart Mill (PDF):
cmonmanbot: john stuart-mill? c'mon man. come on.
FreeFromNames: Finally cracking open the volume of John Stuart Mill's work that has been sitting on my bookshelf for five months.
YifanWang1217: I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill
Hope you have a nice day!
mortalflaw: john stuart mill would roll over in his grave
johnsimkin: In 1866 Bessie Rayner Belloc joined with Barbara Bodichon to form the first ever Women's Suffrage Committee. This group organised the women's suffrage petition, which John Stuart Mill presented to the House of Commons on their behalf.
EarlBCurtis1: Mill, John Stuart.On Liberty and Other Essays (p. 13). Neeland Media LLC. Kindle Edition.
gm_philosopher: The Dangers of Low Goals:
John Stuart Mill warned us against pursuing fleeting pleasures over lasting happiness.
Setting shallow goals limits our potential for growth and may lead to dissatisfaction.
Aim high and pursue goals that truly matter
WhatYouToo: Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ~ John Stuart Mill
CerebralWisdom: The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. - John Stuart Mill
JoshTul: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing” - John Stuart Mill
nsarwark: “The day when slavery can no longer extend itself, is the day of its doom. The slave-owners know this, and it is the cause of their fury.” -John Stuart Mill, “The Contest in America”
abbottjpeg: John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Mike_May_Quotes: An education established and controlled by the State, should only exist, if it exist at all, as one among many compelling experiments, carried on for the purpose of example and stimulus, to keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence. (John Stuart Mill, 1806–1873)
sabrdance: It is my longstanding gripe with Libertarians that -to the extent they think of these things at all -far too many of them start and end with the first 20 pages of John Stuart Mill's *On Liberty.* In fairness to Instapundit, he is clearly familiar with more extensive work. 2/
PetteriMantymaa: ”Stupid people are generally conservative” - John Stuart Mill
TSAdedara: committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”~ John Stuart Mill
gm_philosopher: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
- John Stuart Mill
CerebralWisdom: One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. - John Stuart Mill
carlos_reads: The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray - In On Liberty, first published in 1859, John Stuart Mill famously laid out four reasons for why free speech was a necessity in a free society: the first and second being that a contrary opinion may be true, or true in part, and [1/3]
The4ourthBranch: Speaking of John Stuart Mill...
ColetteColfer: 'The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it...' - John Stuart Mill
Earth2Mother: "The only freedom that deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
- John Stuart Mill
Noxi18195178: 94. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
BenonGowa: Our current 'democracy' is clumsy and frequently ineffectual. But the alternatives are not attractive. The epistocratic conception of politics as argued by John Stuart Mill & Jason Brennan is untenable because it hinders political participation by marginalising the less informed.
YifanWang1217: I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill
Hope you have a nice day!
FriedrichHayek: "JOHN STUART MILL'S PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS" by Daniel Hausman (pdf)
tpmquiz: In which year was John Stuart Mill's On Liberty published? - 1849; 1859; 1869; or 1879?
h_david_baer: A super interesting article, IMO. It's worth remembering that classical liberals, like John Stuart Mill, defended "blue laws" on purely utilitarian grounds.
Karis_kipro: John Stuart Mill
"On Liberty"
NoDMsorTrains: men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
―John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
hardmachine81: The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart Mill
armyguy73to95: John Stuart Mill - “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”
YifanWang1217: I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill
Hope you have a nice day!
Mike_May_Quotes: the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole (John Stuart Mill, 1806–1873)
CerebralWisdom: Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. - John Stuart Mill
2Georgie2: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
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clerotto: “He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”
John Stuart Mill
asato19990816: 94. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
famous_ideal: "It is not a new concept in economic theory, that there could be material benefits whenever a number of separate currencies would be replaced by a single money. This caught the eye of John Stuart Mill, in particular."
John F Nash Jr., Ideal Money, 2008
clerotto: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
John Stuart Mill
ColetteColfer: 'All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility' - John Stuart Mill
2Georgie2: “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
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champlin73bevu: JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, MFBXYOS
RaspiArduino: Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
-- John Stuart Mill
CerebralWisdom: The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. - John Stuart Mill
funnyvileplume: Shoutouts to John Stuart Mill this guy is kinda cool
Vero_atLast: “A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
-John Stuart Mill
quotesible: Ethics and Morality - John Stuart Mill
DonHargrove2: 5/ Thus John Stuart Mill finds good, Anglo-Ssaxon, bourgeois utilitarianism in the Sermon on the Mount. . . . Thomas Jefferson's use of the New Testament indicates a similar spirit.
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