John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Quotes

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

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 to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.