John Stuart Mill — "The strongest argument against despotism is that it does not adequately educate …"

"All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people."

"Justice is a name for certain moral requirements, which, regarded collectively, stand higher in the scale of social utility, and are therefore of more paramount obligation, than any others."

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a …"

"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, …"

"The human mind, when it is in a healthy state, is never satisfied with having attained a certain measure of truth; it is always aspiring to a higher."