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 SPENCERA living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The 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.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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