Mill, John Stuart

"Money is a tool, and like all tools it can be used for good or ill."

"In this age the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service."

"The worth of a human being is reflected in the kind of work he does."

"There is a greater amount of individual happiness in modern times than in former ages."

"The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones."

"An opinion that cotton is an excellent material to stuff a bed with may be held as firmly as an opinion about gravitation."

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded."

"The mental faculties are improved by use or deteriorated by disuse like all other faculties."

"The opinion of the majority is not necessarily the truth."

"State assistance does not diminish the importance of individual virtue but rather highlights it."

"Despotism may govern without crime but cannot govern without slaves."

"To assume that human nature is perpetually uniform is a dangerous assumption."

"The capacity to be affronted is an essential part of moral strength."

"In all the principal countries of Europe there has been an advance in the standard of living."

"Actions are right in the proportion they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse."

"The greatest well-being of all is the only measure of moral approval."

"The human conscience developed to prevent the infliction of suffering."

"Intemperance in conduct is a failure of practical wisdom."

"The greatest improvement in the condition of mankind must proceed from the improvement of education."

"To be capable of steady friendship or affection is the characteristic of the best and noblest dispositions."

"Liberty is not a thing for the multitude; they are unfit for it."

"The subjection of women is wrong in itself and one of the chief hindrances to human improvement."

"Individuality is the same thing with development and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces well-developed human beings."

"Mental cultivation is essential to true freedom."

"The highest aspirations of human nature are possible only when the lower are satisfied."

"A person of genius is never properly appreciated until they are dead."

"Diversity is essential to the full development of human potential."

"The opinion that trade in war is an amusement is peculiarly and eminently an English opinion."

"The demand for mental diversity is as great as the demand for products."

"The price paid for uniformity is always paid in human character."