John Stuart Mill

"Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."

"The person 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."

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

".All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the current sentimentalities that it is their nature, to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but their affections. - The Subjection of Women."

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."

"Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime."

"The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement."