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.


On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (ed. 1867)

John Stuart Mill Quotes

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against...

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against...

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against...

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against...