When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
JOHN STUART MILLActions 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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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.
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
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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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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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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.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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