Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. "
John Stuart Mill
Force
Right
Community
Related Quotes:
" 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
Man
Respect
Own
" The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. "
John Stuart Mill
People
Individual
Far
" In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. "
John Stuart Mill
Both Sides
Intellectual
Sides
" 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
Long
Name
Own
" There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. "
John Stuart Mill
Meaning
Personal
Home
" I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. "
John Stuart Mill
Desires
Happiness
I Have Learned
" Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. "
John Stuart Mill
Who
Experience
Flavor
" That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. "
John Stuart Mill
Dare
Time
Now
" A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. "
John Stuart Mill
Life
Progress
Political
" All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. "
John Stuart Mill
Fruits
Good
Good Things
" 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. "
John Stuart Mill
Right
Pain
Happiness
" No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. "
John Stuart Mill
Word
Same
Full
" 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
Person
Evil
Others
" Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. "
John Stuart Mill
Most
True
Stupid
" He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. "
John Stuart Mill
Little
He
Who
" 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
Opinions
Institutions
Moral
" 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
Individual
Person
Society
" Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. "
John Stuart Mill
Pleasure
Only
Freedom
" The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. "
John Stuart Mill
Government
Reason
Power
" 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. "
John Stuart Mill
Pain
Promotion
Pleasure
" 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
Oppression
Right
Opinion
" Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. "
John Stuart Mill
Originality
One Thing
Feel
" 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. "
John Stuart Mill
Free
Fight
Chance
" One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. "
John Stuart Mill
Person
Only
Equal
" War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "
John Stuart Mill
Much
Moral
War
" It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. "
John Stuart Mill
Human
Day
Human Being
" 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
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. "
John Stuart Mill
Injustice
Justice
Long
" 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
False
Never
Still
" 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. "
John Stuart Mill
Time
Society
Moral