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Action Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more…
- All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
- 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…
- What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
- The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
- 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…
- All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color…
- Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather…
- It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to…
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