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" 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. "

John Stuart Mill

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" 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. "

" He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "