John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy. Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion, and even if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded, and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and courage which it contained.
Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
A party of order or stability and a party of progress or reform are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
