English - Philosopher | May 20, 1806 - May 8, 1873
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
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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.
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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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.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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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.
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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.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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