When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty. Herbert Spencer More Quotes by Herbert Spencer More Quotes From Herbert Spencer What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. Herbert Spencer selfish law men The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Herbert Spencer atheism health exercise Reading is seeing by proxy. Herbert Spencer proxy library reading Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains. Herbert Spencer feds ill brain Science is organized knowledge. Herbert Spencer organized management science Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man. Herbert Spencer radicalism character men Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government. Herbert Spencer slavery progress men The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it. Herbert Spencer atheism spirit ideas 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. Herbert Spencer justice men order The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. Herbert Spencer government nature thinking Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced. Herbert Spencer language simple may We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. Herbert Spencer racial-justice prejudice The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents. Herbert Spencer parent mirrors children If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure permanence of union; and if they would have more faith in this all would go well. To tie together by human law what God has tied together by passion, is about as wise as it would be to chain the moon to the earth lest the natural attraction existing between them should not be sufficient to prevent them flying asunder. Herbert Spencer passion marriage wise I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him. Herbert Spencer libertarian citizens liberty Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. Herbert Spencer equal atheism men Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use. Herbert Spencer citizens trying average The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. Herbert Spencer poetry light white It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. Herbert Spencer external-forces function survival No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. Herbert Spencer
