When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
