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

—John Stuart Mill

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John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, and politician. He was a paradigmatic philosopher of liberalism and has been described as "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He conceived of liberty as...

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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 Mill

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

—John Stuart Mill

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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

—John Stuart Mill

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

—John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

—John Stuart Mill

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

—Gloria Steinem

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