β “Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.” John Stuart Mill
β “A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for…is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.” John Stuart Mill
β “Every one who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.” John Stuart Mill
β “There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.” John Stuart Mill
β “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
β “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
β “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
β “The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.” John Stuart Mill
β “The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.” John Stuart Mill