John Stuart Mill Quotes

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as well as men, and the innocent as well as the subtle, may make it their own; and it is by order and good conduct, and not by force, that it is to be acquired.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.