In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
JOHN STUART MILLIn the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
JOHN STUART MILLAll good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
JOHN STUART MILLThe most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
JOHN STUART MILLAll that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
JOHN STUART MILLThere is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
JOHN STUART MILLTruth 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.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
JOHN STUART MILLThe love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
JOHN STUART MILLThose only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
JOHN STUART MILLLandlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
JOHN STUART MILLTo understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
JOHN STUART MILLLet not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILLIn 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.
JOHN STUART MILLWhen one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
JOHN STUART MILL