"Volumes might be written upon the impiety of…" — Herbert Spencer
"Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious."
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Herbert Spencer
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113 Quotes by Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer has 113 quotes on this site.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the…
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become…
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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More Impiety Quotes
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one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in…
— John Lyly
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Women who were reputed believers began to resort to drugs for producing sterility. They also girded themselves around, so as…
— Hippolytus of Rome
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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
— Plato
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Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the…
— Martin Luther
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When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the…
— George Washington
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These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the…
— Pope Leo XIII
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I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding,…
— Vincent of Lerins
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As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to…
— Rod Dreher
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For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists…
— Frank E. Gaebelein
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My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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