It is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist

On Liberty, ch. 4 “Of the Limits to the Authority of Society Over the Individual” (1859)
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