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John Stuart Mill

English Philosopher

Born: May 20, 1806

Died: May 8, 1873

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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

People Conservative Stupid Conservatives True Most Stupid People Although

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill

Politics People Stupid Conservatives Most Stupid People Necessarily

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

Man Fight Better Safety Made Men Free Miserable Important Own Nothing Unless Willing No Chance More He Himself His Than Personal Being Which Who Creature Chance Kept

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

Good Freedom Long Own Others Our Way Only Pursuing Attempt Name Obtain Efforts Which Deprive Deserves

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

War Worth Ugly Feeling Nothing State Worse Moral Degraded Ugliest Patriotic Which Much Thing Things Thinks

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill

Good Good Things Exist Fruits Which Originality Things

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. John Stuart Mill

Ninety-Nine Only Equal Person Interests Who Belief

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill

Happiness Seek Rather Attempting Learned Limiting Than Them Satisfy Desires

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

Good Will Power Own Community Others Rightfully Member Moral Physical Only Prevent Purpose Civilized Over His Any Either Which Against Warrant Sufficient Harm

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. John Stuart Mill

Political Moral Previous Merely Institutions Opinions Foreign Affected Revolutions Established Subversion Originate Conquest Consequence

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

Politics Fight Better Safety Made Men Free Miserable Important Own Nothing Unless Willing No Chance More He Himself His Than Person Personal Being Which Who Creature Chance Kept

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. John Stuart Mill

Sides Correct Both Tend Both Sides Wrong Intellectual Debates Affirm Deny

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. John Stuart Mill

Minds One Thing Feel The One Thing Cannot Which Use Originality Thing

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. John Stuart Mill

Word Wife Sense Same Full Slave

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

Freedom Pain Pleasure Only Freedom From Ends Things Desirable

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. John Stuart Mill

Pain Pleasure Promotion Prevention Either Themselves Means Inherent Things Desirable

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