John Stuart Mill Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.”

“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.”

“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”

“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.”

“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”

“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”