"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
― John Stuart Mill
Topic(s):
Happiness
More From John Stuart Mill
- "The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
- "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it."
More In Happiness
- "Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."― John Stuart Mill
- "There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."― Chanakya
- "Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time."― Zoe Saldana