"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

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Source : John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.110, Taylor & Francis

John Stuart Mill

#Life Quotes #Evil Quotes #Accountability Quotes

“I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.”
“Iâ€™m in no hurry: the sun and the moon arenâ€™t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, Iâ€™m not there in an instant.”
“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
“Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
“Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.”
“Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.”
“What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.”
“Itâ€™s important to be yourself.”

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