John Stuart Mill Quotes on Virtue
John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher and political economist, the most influential English-language thinker of the Victorian era. This page collects quotes attributed to John Stuart Mill on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to John Stuart Mill:
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
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Attributed to John Stuart Mill:
“The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.”
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Attributed to 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.”
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Attributed to John Stuart Mill:
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”