The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
– John Stuart Mill
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- Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women – John Stuart Mill
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. – John Stuart Mill
- Language is the light of the mind. – John Stuart Mill
- The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice. – John Stuart Mill
- Have intercourse with females, acquire wealth. – John Stuart Mill
- Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. – John Stuart Mill
- The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. – John Stuart Mill
- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill
- [T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible. – John Stuart Mill
- Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. – Charles Caleb Colton
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty. – Kaushik
- Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind. – John Fowles
- I’m convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. – Justin Steckbauer
- Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
- Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil. – Augustine of Hippo
- [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. – John Rawls
- The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. – John Maynard Keynes
- Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners. – William Shakespeare
- Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both. – Olaf Stapledon
- To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus… – William Shakespeare
- Family is not limited by blood or marriage. It’s limited to love and bond to one another in one’s heart – Joyce Guo
- A limited mind will have a limited world! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away. – Stuart DB Picken
- Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided. – Carl Jung
- Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
- Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law… – Martin Luther
- The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her – Emily Bront
- Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I’m not ready for that yet. – Margaret Atwood
- Self-awareness – the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else. – Criss Jami
- Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster. – Geert Hofstede
- Eradicating mosquitoes is a means to an end. An uninfected mosquito is harmless to humans – just a nuisance. An infected mosquito is a danger. – TK Naliaka
- Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive. – George Alec Effinger
- Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. – mile Zola
- I don’t believe in a lot of baggage. It’s such a nuisance. Life’s too short to fuss with it. And it isn’t really necessary – Hugh Lofting
- Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited. – Edith Hamilton