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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. - John Stuart Mill #quotes

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. - John Stuart Mill

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. - John Stuart Mill

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. - John Stuart Mill #quotes

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. -John Stuart Mill #quotes

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

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

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

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. - John Stuart Mill #quotes

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

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

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. - John Stuart Mill #quotes

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. - John Stuart Mill #quotes

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. - John Stuart Mill

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. - John Stuart Mill

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. - John Stuart Mill

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

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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