John Stuart Mill Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Expression, Desire

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.59, OUP Oxford

• If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Liberty, Essentials

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

• A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

  John Stuart Mill

  Progress, Population, Culture

  1848 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

• A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

  John Stuart Mill

  Exercise, Mind, Taught

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “Utilitarianism”, p.20

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