John Stuart Mill

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting…

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of…

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which…

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a…

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives…

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends…

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil…

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience…

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount…

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never…

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it…

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified…

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is…

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths…

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience…