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 MillTag: politics
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 a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. 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 MillTag: motivational inspirational injustice morality ethics justice war fight foreign-policy patriotic safety selfish tyranny will
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
John Stuart MillAs 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 MillBad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart MillTag: paraphrased political-philosophy duty political us-history
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart MillTag: contentment frugality
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
John Stuart MillThe time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
John Stuart MillIt is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.
John Stuart MillA 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 MillTag: morality ethics action responsibility inaction injury
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