John Stuart Mill Quotes and Quotations
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.