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Quotes By John Stuart Mill

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

John Stuart Mill

Freedom, Liberty, Society

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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

John Stuart Mill

Courage, Society, Thinking

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

John Stuart Mill

Action, Happiness

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

John Stuart Mill

Desire, Thinking

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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.

John Stuart Mill

Love, Society

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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.

John Stuart Mill

Purpose

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Grand Canyon National Park

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

Happiness

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Yellowstone National Park

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

John Stuart Mill

Freedom, Liberty

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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.

John Stuart Mill

Accountability, Self

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Grand Canyon National Park

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

John Stuart Mill

Society

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Arches National Park

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.

John Stuart Mill

Freedom, Liberty

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Red Rock Canyon

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

Action, Work

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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

Communication, Conflict

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Arches National Park

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

John Stuart Mill

Awareness, Knowledge

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

John Stuart Mill

Life

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Lake Tahoe

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Belief

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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.

John Stuart Mill

Acceptance, Action, Happiness, Principle

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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

John Stuart Mill

Choice

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Capital Reef National Park

Liberty consists in doing what ones desires.

John Stuart Mill

Desire, Freedom

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