JOHN STUART MILL QUOTES

“The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.”

“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

“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 them for the injury.”

“The only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”

“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 to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.”

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.”

“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”

“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.”

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.”

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”

“To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.”

“The only difference between a capricious autocrat and an autocratic democracy is that the latter is capable of behaving more tyrannically and governing more peremptorily than the former.”

“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”

“The individual’s private judgment is his only guide.”

“The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.” LOVE MESSAGE TO MY DAUGHTER QUOTES

“No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.”

“The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.”

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

“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 them for the injury.”

“The mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.”

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.”

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

“The only chance of avoiding the evils of poverty is to prevent accumulation of wealth.”

“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions unless these concern the interests of no person but himself.”

“All generalizations are false, including this one.”

“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, the restraint on his actions must be so far strictly enforced, that no mischief may be done to others.”

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”

“It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”