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Individual Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from…
- And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
- Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but…
- The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
- The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
- Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.
- Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts…
- In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in…
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is…
- The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and…
- The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
- The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
- The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which…
- Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
- Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any…
- There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is…
More Individual Quotes
- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu
- The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as… — Mikhail Bakunin
- When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are… — Scilla Elworthy
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde
- Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland… — Amy Trask