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John Stuart Mill quotes

1806–1873 · English philosopher and economist

Mill was taught Greek at three and suffered a breakdown at twenty. He became the great defender of individual liberty — and the real author of a line credited to Burke.

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3 quotes traced to John Stuart Mill's own work or a reliable witness.

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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Source: Utilitarianism, ch. 2 (1863)
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Source: Autobiography, ch. 5 (1873)
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
Source: Inaugural Address at the University of St Andrews (1867)