John Stuart Mill

“אנשים אינם משתוקקים להיות עשירים, אלא להיות עשירים יותר מאשר אחרים.”

“אפשר להשתמש בכישורים הקולקטיביים של שני המינים לטובת כולם, והתוצאה תהיה בעלת הערך הכולל הרב ביותר.”

“כל התכונות האנוכיות שאנו מוצאים אצל הגברים, התנשאות עצמית ובוז לאחרים, מקורן במערכת היחסים הנוכחית שבין הגברים לבין הנשים.”

“האידאל המושלם של המוסר התועלתני הוא להתנהג כפי שהיית רוצה שיתנהגו אליך ולאהוב את שכנך כמו את עצמך.”

“מוטב להיות סוקרטס בלתי מרוצה מלהיות כסיל מרוצה.”

“המטרה היחידה אשר למענה אפשר להפעיל כוח בצדק כלפי כל חבר בקהילה מתורבתת בניגוד לרצונו היא כדי למנוע נזק לאחרים. טובתו שלו, הפיזית או המוסרית, אינה הצדקה מספקת.”

“כל הדברים הטובים שבמציאות, הם פרי המקוריות.”

“עלינו להגביל את חופש הפרט; אסור לאפשר לו לפגוע בזולת.”

“.all the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the current sentimentalities that it is their nature, to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but their affections. - The Subjection of Women”

“A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…”

“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.”

“The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.”

“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.”

“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”

“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.”

“Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth.”

“That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”

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

“All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.”

“The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.”