John Stuart Mill

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. 

John Stuart Mill 

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

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 

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. 

John Stuart Mill  

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. 

John Stuart Mill 

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. 

John Stuart Mill 

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. 

John Stuart Mill  

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

John Stuart Mill 

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. 

John Stuart Mill