The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“...over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Person of genus are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without harmful… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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