Herbert Spencer on freedom
Herbert Spencer40 quotes“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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer 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.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer 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 SpencerHerbert Spencer 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.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert SpencerHerbert Spencer 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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