Quotations by Mill

The 6 quotations by Mill, each linked to the position it expresses.

Relation

Territory

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Utilitarianism, ch. 2

On , their position:

Everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one.

Utilitarianism, ch. V

On , their position:

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides.

On Liberty, ch. 3

On , their position:

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

Utilitarianism, ch. 2

On , their position:
On , their position:
On , their position:

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

On Liberty, ch. 1

On , their position:

To silence the expression of an opinion is to rob the human race; those who dissent from it still more than those who hold it.

On Liberty, ch. 2

On , their position: