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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 652
AUTHOR: John Stuart Mill (1806–73)
QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty, ed. David Spitz, chapter 1, p. 6 (1975). Originally published in 1859.
SUBJECTS: Freedom