Mill, John Stuart

"Personal independence is the basis of individual development."

"In cases of strong personal conviction, silence is cowardice."

"The person that the world calls free is really the most enslaved."

"The object of education is to fit us for life."

"Higher pleasures require cultivated judgment and refined sensibilities."

"The suppression of unpopular opinion is a peculiar evil."

"He who can live without society is either a beast or a god."

"The principle of utility recognizes this subjection as wrong."

"To assume that one can change laws without changing the character of the people is to assume the impossible."

"The happiness which is made the object of human life must be an existence made up of few and transitory pleasures."

"True advancement in civilization cannot be measured in material goods alone."

"The tendency of everything is to become more and more dependent upon the capacity for individuality."

"The moral judgment of mankind has always lagged behind the moral necessities of the time."

"When all mankind save one were of a different opinion, that one would have the right to resist the rest."

"The opinion which holds human progress to be possible is to be regarded as a fundamental article of faith."

"Only the enlightened few will recognize the true value of freedom."

"The power of custom is so great that we often do not perceive it."

"In any civilized society, the subordination of one half of humanity to the other is one of the chief sources of vice and misery."

"The question is not whether genius can be born into any station of life; it is whether it will be allowed to grow."

"The person who speaks a truth that the world does not wish to hear must be brave indeed."