Books destined to form future thinkers take too much time to write, and when written come, in general, too slowly into notice and repute, to be relie… - John Stuart Mill

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Az emberek - akár mint uralkodók, akár mint polgárok - szeretik saját vélekedéseiket és elfogultságaikat viselkedési szabályként másokra erőltetni; s ezt a hajlamot az emberi természet legjobb és legrosszabb tulajdonságai is oly erősen táplálják, hogy aligha lehet majd valaha is mással, mint a hatalom hiányával kordában tartani...

Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling; against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development, and, if possible, prevent the formation, of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own.