"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism." — John Stuart Mill

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism."

— John Stuart Mill

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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill

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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we…
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we…
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the…
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed…
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or…
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a…
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an…
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to…
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain…

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. — Henry Ward Beecher
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt… — Joseph Addison
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler
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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. — Elizabeth Bowen
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
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