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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
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Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
Herbert Spencer
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We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.
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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.
Herbert Spencer -
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
Herbert Spencer -
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
Herbert Spencer -
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer
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In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
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Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.
Herbert Spencer -
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Herbert Spencer -
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
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Reading is seeing by proxy.
Herbert Spencer -
Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.
Herbert Spencer