Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

Related Quotes:

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

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. "

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. "

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. "

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. "

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

" The person 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

" The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. "

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. "

John Stuart Mill

" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

" There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. "

John Stuart Mill

" Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. "

John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill