Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, an….

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . ..

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man..

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality..

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it..

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious..

The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully r….

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are s….

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many ….

It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a partic….

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society..

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and m….

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never e….

Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is ….

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more t….

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost..

Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains..

The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like th….

All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or ….

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves..

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..