I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings
G. W. Smith, John Stuart Mill (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments”, p.262, Psychology Press
