The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. -John Stuart Mill Power
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill Men
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. -John Stuart Mill Government
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill Chance
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill Men
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -John Stuart Mill Chance
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. -John Stuart Mill Technology
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. -John Stuart Mill Happiness
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. -John Stuart Mill Society
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. -John Stuart Mill Power
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. -John Stuart Mill Happiness
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. -John Stuart Mill Home
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. -John Stuart Mill Courage
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. -John Stuart Mill Courage
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 pleasure and the absence of pain. -John Stuart Mill Happiness
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -John Stuart Mill Politics
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 others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. -John Stuart Mill Power
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. -John Stuart Mill Men
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. -John Stuart Mill Respect
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. -John Stuart Mill Strength
