8 John Stuart Mill Quotes on Life and Freedom Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions. Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill it is because their consciences are weak. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men. One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. 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. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. “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 I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Top 10 Most Famous John Stuart Mill Quotes (BEST) (MUST READ) On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Oxford World’s Classics).
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