The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.
Weitere Zitate von John Stuart Mill
Zum Autor"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
"Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of 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."
"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."
"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."