Herbert Spencer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
-
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
-
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
-
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
-
I don't fear anything now.
-
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
-
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
-
To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
-
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
-
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
-
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
-
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
-
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
-
It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.
-
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
-
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
-
Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.
-
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
-
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.
-
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
-
“The opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
-
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.
-
I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
-
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
