In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence
John Stuart MillIn this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
John Stuart MillThere is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
John Stuart MillWas there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
John Stuart MillLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart Mill