Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
JOHN STUART MILLOver one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
JOHN STUART MILLHow can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
JOHN STUART MILLA person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
JOHN STUART MILLLandlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title.
JOHN STUART MILLBad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILLWhen one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
JOHN STUART MILLTruth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
JOHN STUART MILLIn all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
JOHN STUART MILLWhatever crushes individuality is despotism.
JOHN STUART MILLAll that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
JOHN STUART MILLThe liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
JOHN STUART MILLSolitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
JOHN STUART MILLLiberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
JOHN STUART MILL