Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
903
AUTHOR:
John Stuart Mill (180673)
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. 5758 (1975). Originally published in 1859.