The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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A 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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Music 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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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