I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .


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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one...
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Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their i...
JOHN STUART MILL
There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportu...
JOHN STUART MILL
Conversancy with Hegel tends to deprave one's intellect.
JOHN STUART MILL
No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, t...
JOHN STUART MILL
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mank...
JOHN STUART MILL
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called so...
JOHN STUART MILL
That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings. The ...
JOHN STUART MILL
Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in...
JOHN STUART MILL
Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this—...
JOHN STUART MILL
It is a strange notion that the acknowledgment of a first principle is inconsistent with the admissi...
JOHN STUART MILL
All honor to those who can abnegate for themselves the personal enjoyment of life, when by such renu...
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imputation; for if the sources of pleasure were precisely the same to human beings and to swine, the
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The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing their own greatest ...
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Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a deci...
JOHN STUART MILL
It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happin...
JOHN STUART MILL
إن القدرة على أسمى المشاعر هي في معظم الطبائع، نبتة رقي...
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: إن البشر يفقدون تطلعاتهم العالية لأنهم يفقدون أذواقه�...
JOHN STUART MILL
To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed,...
JOHN STUART MILL
Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ...
JOHN STUART MILL
Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by ...
JOHN STUART MILL
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfi...
JOHN STUART MILL
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...
JOHN STUART MILL
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...
JOHN STUART MILL
Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...
JOHN STUART MILL
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount o...
JOHN STUART MILL
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of an...
JOHN STUART MILL
Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumst...
JOHN STUART MILL
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or be...
JOHN STUART MILL
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicke...
JOHN STUART MILL
The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ...
JOHN STUART MILL
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
JOHN STUART MILL
All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...
JOHN STUART MILL
All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never ...
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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people...
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All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take ...
JOHN STUART MILL
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...
JOHN STUART MILL
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
JOHN STUART MILL
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentie...
JOHN STUART MILL
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happ...
JOHN STUART MILL
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and ...
JOHN STUART MILL
Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mec...
JOHN STUART MILL
Gdyby trzeba było podzielić firmę, to oddałbym majątek, halę produkcyjną i wyposażenie, a s...
JOHN STUART
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest.
JOHN STEWART MILL
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink ...
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now w...
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