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~ John Stuart Mill Quotes ~
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John Stuart Mill Quotes


A British philosopher and civil servant.
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control. He was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's. Hoping to remedy the problems found in an inductive approach to science, such as confirmation bias, he clearly set forth the premises of falsification as the key component in the scientific method. Mill was also a Member of Parliament and an important figure in liberal political philosophy.

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He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2015, 11:10:43 AM »
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2015, 11:11:19 AM »
His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.

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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2015, 11:11:56 AM »
The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

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« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2015, 11:12:32 AM »
The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.

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« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 11:13:13 AM »
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid but most stupid people are conservatives.

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« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2015, 11:13:54 AM »
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2015, 11:14:32 AM »
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2015, 11:15:11 AM »
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2015, 11:15:51 AM »
Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

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« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2015, 11:16:39 AM »
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.

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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2015, 11:17:12 AM »
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2015, 11:17:48 AM »
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.

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« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2015, 11:18:30 AM »
The person 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.