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There are 47 quotes for the author John Stuart Mill

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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 war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is mor
Subject: War

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Subject: Democracy

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

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. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.

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.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

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

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.

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

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.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

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.

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

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.

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