John Stuart Mill

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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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

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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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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

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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. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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