John Stuart Mill

“The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.”
-John Stuart Mill

“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”
-John Stuart Mill

“A man 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.”
-John Stuart Mill

“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
-John Stuart Mill

“The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.”
-John Stuart Mill