Quotes by Mill, John Stuart

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from >>

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of government >>

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

Quotations about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished >>

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but t >>

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life. >>

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart