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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. "
Right
Pain
Happiness
" 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. "
Rules
Color
Character
" 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. "
Pain
Promotion
Pleasure
" All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. "
Fruits
Good
Good Things
" 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. "
Opinions
Institutions
Moral
" Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. "
Most
True
Stupid
" A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. "
Free
Fight
Chance
" A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. "
Life
Progress
Political
" 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. "
Person
Evil
Others
" As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. "
War
Charity
Good
" 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. "
Injustice
Justice
Long
" Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. "
People
Stupid People
Politics
" Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. "
Society
Strength
Character
" He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. "
Little
He
Who
" I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. "
Force
Right
Community
" 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. "
Mankind
More
Opinion
" I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. "
Desires
Happiness
I Have Learned
" In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. "
Both Sides
Intellectual
Sides
" It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. "
Human
Day
Human Being
" Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. "
Who
Experience
Flavor
" Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. "
Men
Well
Excluded
" No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. "
Word
Same
Full
" 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. "
Pleasure
Experience
Feeling
" One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. "
Person
Only
Equal
" Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. "
Originality
One Thing
Feel
" Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. "
Pleasure
Only
Freedom
" Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. "
True
Opinions
Truth
" That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. "
Dare
Time
Now
" 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. "
Time
Society
Moral
" The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. "
Advancement
Human
Standing
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