John Stuart Mill Quotes

• Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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• He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

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• Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

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• All desirable things… are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

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• All desirable things… are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

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• The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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• Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.

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• In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

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• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

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• The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

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• One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

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• Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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• That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

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• The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.

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• Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

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• In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

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• As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

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John Stuart Mill (100)

Birth:	20th May, 1806
Death:	8th May, 1873
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Politician

About

John Stuart Mill was born in Pentonville, London, England. He was a British philosopher, economist, politician, essayist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy. He studied at the University College London. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. His career as a colonial administrator at the British East India Company spanned from when he was 17 years old in 1823 until 1858, when the Company was abolished in favor of direct rule by the British crown over India. A member of the Liberal Party, he was also the first Member of Parliament (for City and Westminster from 1865-1868) to call for women's suffrage. Between the years 1865 and 1868 Mill served as Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews. He was godfather to the philosopher Bertrand Russell. He wrote several books include: A System of Logic, Principles of Political Economy, On Liberty, Considerations on Representative Government, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women (essay), and Three essays on religion. He married Harriet Taylor in 1851.

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