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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
Autobiographer
Clerk
Economist
Egalitarianism
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Politician
Suffragist
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Islington
J. S. Mill
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[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing what nobody does, or of not doing what everybody does, is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
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The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties.
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The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.
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