More from Herbert Spencer
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert SpencerHerbert 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 perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer
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I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it’s about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
Andrew CuomoAndrew Cuomo A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
H. L. MenckenH. L. Mencken No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir LeninVladimir Lenin The United States should get rid of its militias.
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