John Stuart Mill
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."
[Letter]
John Stuart Mill
"It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."
[Utilitarianism]
John Stuart Mill
"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
[On Liberty]
John Stuart Mill
"The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the other - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement."
[The Subjection of Women]
John Stuart Mill
"The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection."
[On Liberty]
John Stuart Mill
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration."
[The Contest in America]
