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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.

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.

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

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

John Stuart Mill
Power, Government, Evil
John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.110, Cambridge University Press

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

John Stuart Mill
Evil, Citizens, States
John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.193

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill
Evil, Liberty, Would Be
On Liberty ch. 2 (1859)

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.

John Stuart Mill
Christian, Character, Evil
"On Liberty". Philosophical work by John Stuart Mill (ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion), 1859.

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

John Stuart Mill
Men, Errors, Evil

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

John Stuart Mill
Religious, Evil, Religion
"Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography".

There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.

John Stuart Mill
Real, Evil, Morality

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