John Stuart Mill Quote

Quote from John Stuart Mill,

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

By:	John Stuart Mill (more quotes by John Stuart Mill or books by/about John Stuart Mill)
	(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
Source:	John Stuart Mill
Categories:	Belief, Conscience, Persecution, Religion, Tolerance
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