Men Quotes by Herbert Spencer

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

— Herbert Spencer

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

— Herbert Spencer

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

— Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

— Herbert Spencer

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

— Herbert Spencer

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

— Herbert Spencer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

— Herbert Spencer

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him

— Herbert Spencer

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some…

— Herbert Spencer

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a…

— Herbert Spencer

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

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

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

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

— Herbert Spencer

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and…

— Herbert Spencer

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are…

— Herbert Spencer

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during…

— Herbert Spencer

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the…

— Herbert Spencer

Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a…

— Herbert Spencer

If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man,…

— Herbert Spencer

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more…

— Herbert Spencer

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad…

— Herbert Spencer

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a…

— Herbert Spencer

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the…

— Herbert Spencer

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

Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,…

— Herbert Spencer

If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened…

— Herbert Spencer

People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end.…

— Herbert Spencer

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from…

— Herbert Spencer

What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not…

— Herbert Spencer

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that…

— Herbert Spencer

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

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment…

— Herbert Spencer

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

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no…

— Herbert Spencer

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…

— 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…

— Herbert Spencer

Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with…

— Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and…

— Herbert Spencer

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