Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart MillWhat a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.
John Stuart MillThere are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart MillLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart MillThe study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
John Stuart MillThe art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.
John Stuart Mill