John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Quotes

• “the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be ...”
• “The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people;...”
• “Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their prac...”
• “A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modif...”
• “Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all ...”
• “It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had ...”
• “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no mor...”
• “Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opi...”
• “The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt ...”