Actions are right in the proportion they tend to promote hap... - Mill, John Stuart

This quote is attributed to Mill, John Stuart.

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

Mill, John Stuart

Philosopher-Economist English 1806–1873

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