John Stuart Mill Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Life, Party, Order

  'On Liberty' (1859) ch. 2

• The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

  John Stuart Mill

  Science, Names, Progress

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings”, p.531

• The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

  John Stuart Mill

  Progress, Overcoming, Advancement

• It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.

  John Stuart Mill

  Communication, Progress, Action

• 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.

• The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Enemy Of Progress, History

• Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

  John Stuart Mill

  Kings, Men, Progress

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.499, Oxford University Press, USA

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