Quotes by : John Stuart Mill

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore....

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as....

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things,....

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society,....

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.....

The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my knowing....

Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one....

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....