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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 903 |
| AUTHOR: | John Stuart Mill (1806–73) |
| QUOTATION: | But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty, ed. David Spitz, chapter 3, pp. 57–58 (1975). Originally published in 1859. |
| SUBJECTS: | Individual |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| WORKS: | John Stuart Mill Collection |
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