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 SPENCERWe all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERIn science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCERGovernment is essentially immoral.
HERBERT SPENCERWhat a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
HERBERT SPENCEROpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
HERBERT SPENCERSociety exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCERLife is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCEROld forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
HERBERT SPENCERHow often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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 SPENCERMusic must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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