112 ordspråk av John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill föddes den 20 mai 1806 och dog den 8 mai 1873 - English economist
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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.

What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.

desires or fears for themselves - their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.

Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other — that is to say, when society is at an end.

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

A person may suffer very severe penalties at the hands of others, for faults which directly concern only himself.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

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. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; in a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

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

No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per

A philosopher is there to disturb the indolence of the mind

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences

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