John Stuart Mill Quotes about Wisdom

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A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything

A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

John Stuart Mill

Wisdom, Government, People

John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes”, p.516

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

John Stuart Mill

Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.

John Stuart Mill

Wisdom, Two, Unity

John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.466