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Good Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
- Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to…
- Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but…
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
- Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
- I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a…
- Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.…
- When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good…
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is…
- All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.
- 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…
- 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…
- All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
- As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good,…
- 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…
- But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce…
- The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure…
- Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always…
- 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…
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is…
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