Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
John Stuart MillIn all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
John Stuart MillThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart MillThe most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart Mill