John Stuart Mill Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Government, Order

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.273, OUP Oxford

• Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Want, Obedience

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

• What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Religious, Ideas

  "On Liberty". Philosophical work by John Stuart Mill, 1859.

• Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Lying, Selfish

  John Stuart Mill (1950). “Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government”

• All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Humanity, Obedience, Capable

  John Stuart Mill (1875). “On Liberty”, p.36

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