John Stuart Mill Archives - Oliver Meredith Cox

“If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.” —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Posted on: September 23, 2020 September 23, 2020
Author: Oliver
Categories: Musings
Tags: John Stuart Mill
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Opinion

‘That’s your opinion and you have a right to it.’ or some other such statement (usually preceding the speaker’s disagreement with said opinion) is one which provides me with an acute combination of offense and irritation.

Posted on: April 19, 2012 April 19, 2012
Author: Oliver
Categories: Essays
Tags: Egypt, Freedom of speech, Human Right, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, John Stuart Mill, Liberty, Politics, United States, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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