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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
English Philosopher
Born: May 20, 1806
Died: May 8, 1873
Any Experience Good Men Power Society
Related authors: Alan Watts Bernard Williams Francis Bacon George Henry Lewes Herbert Spencer Jeremy Bentham John Locke Thomas Hobbes
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
Justice Injustice Fight Battle Long Other Willing Must Terminated Affairs Human Human Beings Ascendancy Against Mankind Beings Ever Need
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
Happiness Pain Pleasure Promote Absence Tend Proportion Wrong Reverse Intended Produce Actions Right
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. John Stuart Mill
Life Experience Those Risked Never Protected Sheltered Flavor Certain Who Fought
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. John Stuart Mill
Men Few Distinguishes Majority According Inability Act Beliefs
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill
Happiness Possible Unquestionably Without Done Mankind
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
War Good Charity Matter Complete Immediate Apt General General Good Directly Concerned Another Ultimate Effect Which Persons Consequence
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. John Stuart Mill
Men Earning Excluded Well Imprisoned Bread Might Means
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
Power Organ Only Tendencies Instincts Name Masses Make Governments While Themselves Deserving
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