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.
HERBERT SPENCERNo 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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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 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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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