A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
HERBERT SPENCEREvery cause produces more than one effect.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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