John Stuart Mill quote: Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of ...

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

~ John Stuart Mill ~

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