John Stuart Mill Quotes
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

-John Stuart Mill
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

-John Stuart Mill
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.[John Stuart Mill, in a Parliamentary debate with . . . Read more

-John Stuart Mill
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

-John Stuart Mill
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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear it . . . Read more

-John Stuart Mill
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for . . . Read more

-John Stuart Mill
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccent . . . Read more

-John Stuart Mill
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are . . . Read more

-John Stuart Mill