John Stuart Mill Quotes

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

I don't have tiffs with people. I only mind my business, but whatever interferes my freedom of expression, I have always voiced.

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causin' no harm, then your alright with me.

I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

I don't really care what people do.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at you and say, 'Well, how can you tell me not to do that when you were there doing it yourself?' Or supposedly were doing it yourself. I think you must let everyone live their life the way they have to.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.