Herbert Spencer Quotes
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
Herbert Spencer
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation
Herbert Spencer
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
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.
Herbert Spencer
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
Herbert Spencer
A manís liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited
Herbert Spencer
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, farseeing be.
Herbert Spencer
