Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
19世纪英国的一位杰出哲学家和经济学家
约翰·斯图尔特·密尔(John Stuart Mill)是19世纪英国的一位杰出哲学家和经济学家,他的思想涵盖了伦理学、政治哲学和个人自由等多个领域。