No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may l… - John Stuart Mill

Then are seen the cases, so frequent in this age of the world as almost to form the majority, in which the creed remains as it were outside the mind, incrusting and petrifying it again all other influences addressed to the higher parts of our nature; manifesting its power by not suffering any fresh and living conviction to get in, but itself doing nothing for the mind or heart except standing sentinel over them to keep them vacant

الأمة التي تُقَزِّم رجالها، لكي يصبحوا أدوات طيعة أكثر في يديها حتى من أجل أهداف مفيدة، سوف تجد أنه لا يمكن إنجاز شيئ عظيم برجال صغار

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.