"Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as Individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality, is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
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John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, [1859] 1863) pp. 121-2.
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