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John Stuart Mill
May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873
Nationality: English
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: English Philosopher

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

   

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

   

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

   

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.

   

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

   

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

   

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

   

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

   

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

   

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

   

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

   

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

   

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

   

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.

   

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

   

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

   

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

   

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

   

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

   

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

   

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