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John Stuart Mill3 quotes
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill · 1859Every one who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. — John Stuart Mill · 1859The 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 · 1859James Joyce2 quotes
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — James Joyce · 1915David Wooderson1 quote
Man, it’s the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. You know, if it ain’t that piece of paper, there’s some other choice they’re gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall "Pink" Floyd wants to do, man. Let me tell you this: the older you do get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’, man, L-I-V-I-N. — David Wooderson · 1993Diana Trilling1 quote
We are all of us, men and women both, the creatures of culture: We do and feel what our societies want us to do and feel, and the demands that they put upon us are not always either very consistent or very precisely correlated with biology. — Diana Trilling · 1970Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1878Kate Chopin1 quote
Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. — Kate Chopin · 1899Simone de Beauvoir1 quote
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1970Thomas Mann1 quote
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. — Thomas Mann · 1924William Graham Sumner1 quote
The mores come down to us from the past. Each individual is born into them as he is born into the atmosphere, and he does not reflect on them, or criticise them any more than a baby analyzes the atmosphere before he begins to breathe it. — William Graham Sumner · 1906