John Stuart Mill Quotes

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

I am the worst judge of my books.

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.

Wrong is for other people.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

That which we call sin in others, we call experiment in ourselves.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes

I am not sure that I can determine what is fair or unfair to the public.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

I warn my readers against my biases.

I think, in reality, opinions don't matter that much.

Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.