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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 50 quotes by John Stuart Mill Part of a series on Utilitarianism Predecessors Epicurus David Hume Claude Adrien Helvétius William Godwin Francis Hutcheson William Paley Key people Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick Richard Mervyn Hare Peter Singer Types of utilitarianism Preference Rule Act Two-level Total Average Negative Hedonism Enlightened self-interest Key concepts Pain Suffering Pleasure Utility Happiness Eudaimonia Consequentialism Felicific calculus... Read full biography of John Stuart Mill → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → 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... → 0 One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. 0 All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. 0 Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. 0 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. 0 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... → 0 The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. 0 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... → 0 The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. 0 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. 0 The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That... → 0 That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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50 quotes by John Stuart Mill