“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.” John Stuart Mill
“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.” John Stuart Mill
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” John Stuart Mill
“The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that…he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.” Alexis de Tocqueville
history of this quote “Teach me to feel another’s wo, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.” by Alexander Pope Alexander Pope
“An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer.” John Stuart Mill
“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.” John Stuart Mill
