John Stuart Mill Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”

“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”

“As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.”

“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.”

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”

“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”

“I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.”

“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.”

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

“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.”