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Government is essentially immoral.

Herbert Spencer

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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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Form Government Old Terror
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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Death Live Moments Place
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
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.
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Color Glass Project Pull See
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection

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