John Stuart Mill Quotes About Independence

Quotes about: Independence

• There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political, Independence, Limits

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.14

• The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

  John Stuart Mill

  Independence, Mind, Society

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Independence

  John Stuart Mill (1861). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.108

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