Famous Quotes by John Stuart Mill

Below are famous quotes by John Stuart Mill - English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873).

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.

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

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.

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

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way.

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 war is much worse. 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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