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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill



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Author Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: English
Born: May 20, 1806
Died: May 8, 1873

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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 war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
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

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
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

The person 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

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill

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Words
Desirable, Ends, Freedom, Freedom From, Only, Pain, Pleasure, Things
Definitions
Desirable, Freedom, Only, Pain, Pleasure
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