What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
– John Stuart Mill
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- Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill
- One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. – John Stuart Mill
- “All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” – John Stuart Mill
- It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. – John Stuart Mill
- That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public. – John Stuart Mill
- Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half thinkers. – John Stuart Mill
- 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
- 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. – John Stuart Mill
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. – John Stuart Mill
- Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. – John Stuart Mill