Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCERSociety exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCERPeople are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCERGovernment is essentially immoral.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
HERBERT SPENCERThose who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
HERBERT SPENCERThe preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
HERBERT SPENCERThe Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
HERBERT SPENCERObjects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
HERBERT SPENCERWhat a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
HERBERT SPENCERWe all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCERAn argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
HERBERT SPENCERA living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
HERBERT SPENCERWhen a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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