John Stuart Mill Quotes

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.