Body Quote by John Stuart Mill

“A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn’t create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he’s born into; he may serve…

— Stanisław Lem

“...over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".”

— John Stuart Mill

“In nations where it exists, every individual takes an equal share in sovereign power and participates equally in the government of the state. Thus…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself…

— Thomas Jefferson

“John Stuart Mill,   The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any…

— Milton Friedman

The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom…

— Simone de Beauvoir

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

— Ludwig von Mises

When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases it. By…

— Calvin Coolidge

“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play…

— Michel Foucault

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

— John Stuart Mill

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke