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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

John Stuart Mill

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher

Nationality: English

Born: May 20, 1806

Died: May 8, 1873

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John Locke, Alan Watts, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Bentham, Herbert Spencer, George Henry Lewes, Bernard Williams

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Am, Another, Any, Aware, Civilized, Community, Force, I Am, Right

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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

John Stuart Mill

People Stupid True Stupid People

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

John Stuart Mill

Opinion Oppression Exercise Right

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

John Stuart Mill

War Ugly Feeling Nothing

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

Politics People Stupid Stupid People

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

John Stuart Mill

Good Freedom Long Name

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

John Stuart Mill

People Liberty Make Individual

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

John Stuart Mill

Happiness I Have Learned Seek Than

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

Man Men Fight Chance

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 Fight Long Battle

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

John Stuart Mill

Strength Courage Character Society

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill

Political Opinions Moral Institutions

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

Wife Slave Sense Same

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

John Stuart Mill

Power Great Government Evil

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 Wrong Pleasure

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