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

Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer's Popular Quotes

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

- Herbert Spencer

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

- Herbert Spencer

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

- 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 ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

- Herbert Spencer

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the…

- Herbert Spencer

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.

- Herbert Spencer

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the…

- Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

- Herbert Spencer
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