The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. John Stuart Mill Read Quote
