On Liberty, ch. 3 "Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being" (1859) - Mill, John Stuart | WIST Quotations
Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has…
