Herbert Spencer Quotes

All socialism involves slavery.

Herbert Spencer

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• I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Think
  • Always
  • Film

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • High
  • Fly
  • Feet

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Different
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Night

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Taken
  • Games
  • Nothing

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender, because you're changing over. You have to start getting electrolysis before you even start your therapy. But I think all the weird looks help to give you conviction in who you really are.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Weird

• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Red
  • Liked

• I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 points a game for us to win.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Win

• veritas norma sui et falsi est

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• All the rest of the world uses the word 'electricity.' They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

  

  Mao Zedong
  • World
  • Rest
  • English

• Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Happy
  • Nature
  • Night

• I would be willing to live and be farther serviceable to God and his people; but my work is done. Yet God will be with his people.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Revolution
  • Friendship
  • Constitution

• The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Possession
  • Goods
  • Human Misery

• When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.

  

  Rick Perry
  • World
  • Economy
  • Nations

• All socialism involves slavery.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Slavery
  • Socialism