--- title: "12 Ifs Quotes By Herbert Spencer" description: "12 Ifs quotes by Herbert Spencer. Plus more from Herbert Spencer and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/206/herbert-spencer-1765_despotism_if-men-use-their-liberty-in-such-a-way-a_2372184.jpg" --- > [If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-men-use-their-liberty-in-such-a-way-as-to-surrender-their-liberty/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/206/herbert-spencer-1765_despotism_if-men-use-their-liberty-in-such-a-way-a_2372184.jpg) > [If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-they-are-sufficiently-complete-to-live-they-do-live-and-it-is-well/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/495/herbert-spencer-1765_dies_if-they-are-sufficiently-complete-to-liv_1753841.jpg) > [Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/though-probably-no-competent-geologist-would-contend-that-the-2/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/671/herbert-spencer-1765_classification_though-probably-no-competent-geologist-w_2337627.jpg) > [If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-every-man-has-freedom-to-do-all-that-he-wills-provided-he/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b66/herbert-spencer-1765_connections_if-every-man-has-freedom-to-do-all-that_2139714.jpg) > [When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/when-men-hire-themselves-out-to-shoot-other-men-to-order-asking/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c9/herbert-spencer-1765_asking_when-men-hire-themselves-out-to-shoot-ot_1581770.jpg) > [If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-on-one-day-we-find-the-fast-spreading-recognition-of-popular/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1d/herbert-spencer-1765_children_if-on-one-day-we-find-the-fast-spreading_1875325.jpg) > [If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-men-were-wise-they-would-see-that-the-affection-that-god-has/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec2/herbert-spencer-1765_affection_if-men-were-wise-they-would-see-that-the_980472.jpg) > [Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/any-one-who-studies-the-state-of-things-which-preceded-the-french/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/herbert-spencer-1765_action_any-one-who-studies-the-state-of-things_690090.jpg) > [The law is the survival of the fittest… The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/the-law-is-the-survival-of-the-fittest-the-law-is-not-the-survival-of/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00e/herbert-spencer-1765_causes_the-law-is-the-survival-of-the-fittest-t_1946206.jpg) > [Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/organs-faculties-powers-capacities-or-whatever-else-we-call-them-grow/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d3/herbert-spencer-1765_accidents_organs-faculties-powers-capacities-or-wh_910063.jpg) > [All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/all-evil-results-from-the-non-adaptation-of-constitution-to/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06e/herbert-spencer-1765_adaptation_all-evil-results-from-the-non-adaptation_1750391.jpg) > [If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/if-there-be-an-order-in-which-the-human-race-has-mastered-its-various/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/296/herbert-spencer-1765_acquire_if-there-be-an-order-in-which-the-human_2888445.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Herbert Spencer > [During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/during-human-progress-every-science-is-evolved-out-of-its/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/no-physiologist-who-calmly-considers-the-question-in-connection-with/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/any-piece-of-knowledge-which-the-pupil-has-himself-acquired-any/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/conservatism-defends-those-coercive-arrangements-which-a-still/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/absolute-morality-is-the-regulation-of-conduct-in-such-a-way-that/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/when-a-man-s-knowledge-is-not-in-order-the-more-of-it-he-has-the/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/the-cruelty-of-a-fijian-god-who-represented-as-devouring-the-souls-of/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/the-liberty-the-citizen-enjoys-is-to-be-measured-not-by-governmental/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/i-had-a-great-dislike-to-the-annoyances-entailed-by-baggage-and-it/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/progress-therefore-is-not-an-accident-but-a-necessity-it-is-a-part-of/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/surely-in-much-talk-there-cannot-choose-but-be-much-vanity-loquacity/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/no-one-can-be-perfectly-free-till-all-are-free-no-one-can-be/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/only-when-genius-is-married-to-science-can-the-highest-results-be/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/it-cannot-but-happen-that-those-will-survive-whose-functions-happen/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) > [“Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/before-he-can-remake-his-society-his-society-must-make-him/) [Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/herbert-spencer/#itemlist", "name": "12 Ifs Quotes By Herbert Spencer", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? 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And if this inference is unquestionable, then is the one above deduced from it-that humanity must in the end become completely adapted to its conditions-unquestionable also. 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