"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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"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"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
John Stuart Mill"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
John Stuart Mill"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
John Stuart Mill"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
John Stuart Mill"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
John Stuart Mill"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."
John Stuart Mill"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."
John Stuart Mill"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
John Stuart Mill"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
John Stuart Mill"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
John Stuart Mill"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
John Stuart Mill"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread."
John Stuart Mill"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
John Stuart Mill"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
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"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
John Stuart Mill"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."
John Stuart Mill