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Quote By: John Stuart Mill

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

- John Stuart Mill

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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.

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Purpose

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To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

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Love, Society

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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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Desire, Thinking

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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

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Acceptance, Action, Happiness, Principle

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

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Accountability, Self

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There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

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Life

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