 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. \ That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others,... | |
 | Lucy F March Phillipps - Free will and determinism - 1866 - 106 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will, is to prevent harm to. others. His own good,...either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant : it is a good reason for remonstrating with him ; but not for compelling him, or visiting him with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 802 pages
...rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised [why only a civilised ?] community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a suflicient warrant. ' That is a good reason for remonstrating with him, or entreating him, but not... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1866 - 648 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." These are his postulates. He dares not discuss them abstractly, but only as they are... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1866 - 650 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." These are his postulates. He dares not discuss them abstractly, but only as they are... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1861 - 580 pages
...of action of any of their number is self-protection. ' That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised ' over any member of a civilized...either physical or moral, ' is not a sufficient warrant — the conduct from which it is de' signed to deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to others.'... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 728 pages
...from the control of society. It is not obvious to all that the only purpose for which ' power can be ' rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community ' against his will, is to prevent harm to others." There is one case which spontaneously suggests itself, and which forms a kind of expcrimentum... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...be according to the rules of courtesy. He says, — 1st.* " The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will, is to prevent harm to others." 2nd.f " Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self -protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any. member of a civilized...will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, whether physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...will, is to prevent harm- to others. His own good, whether physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or... | |
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That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over... 
