The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERSociety exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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