Quotes by : John Stuart Mill

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any....

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages....

Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever....

It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as....

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse....

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only....

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and....

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic....