01c. 1839 ADThe only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
03c. 1839 ADThe only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
04c. 1839 ADThe most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
05c. 1839 ADIf all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
06c. 1839 ADThe person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
07c. 1839 ADA man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
08c. 1839 ADThere are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
09c. 1839 ADLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
10c. 1839 ADOf two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
11c. 1839 ADThe dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
12c. 1839 ADThe amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
13c. 1839 ADConservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
14c. 1839 ADIt is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
15c. 1839 ADWhat distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
16c. 1839 ADWhatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
17c. 1839 ADThe individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
18c. 1839 ADPleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.John Stuart Mill / quote ↗
