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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 → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → 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... → 0 There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. 0 I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. 0 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... → 0 Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. 0 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. 0 Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. 0 The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. 0 In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. 0 The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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50 quotes by John Stuart Mill