John Stuart Mill Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sleep, Land, Effort

  "Principles of Political Economy". Book by John Stuart Mill, book V, chap. 2, 1848.

• 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

• The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and set some value on it, but the very idea of equality is strange and offensive to them. They do not dislike to have many people above them as long as they have some below them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Class, Ideas, Long

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