John Stuart Mill Quotes
"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.""The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination.""I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.""The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to everything else, namely not to follow it but to amend it.""The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.""The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.""There is no necessity to separate the inward and outward life, no necessity ever to make a compromise between some inward principle and outward duty""All good things which exist are the fruits of originality""There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home""Conservatism is not so much a banner of principles as a disposition of things and persons""The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race""The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.""One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.""Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.""The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.""All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.""The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.""Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.""A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.""Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
