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.
Weitere Zitate von John Stuart Mill
Zum Autor"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
"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."
"The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement."
"Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
"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."
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."