Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCERWho 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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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