"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends." ― John Stuart Mill Topic(s): Freedom More From John Stuart Mill "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them." "Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience." "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." More In Freedom "Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."― Nelson Mandela "Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."― Nelson Mandela "America, to me, is freedom."― Willie Nelson