Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
