Author of quotes: Herbert Spencer

From year to year, day after day, the course of events convinces me that people by nature are able to get along only with a certain amount of freedom, and since they will be given a large amount, they themselves will take care to part with it and organize a new form of tyranny.

Our life is shortened by ignorance.

No one can be perfectly free until everyone is free. No one can be completely moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be completely happy until everyone is still happy.

No political alchemy will get golden behavior from lead instincts.

The goal of upbringing is to form a creature capable of controlling itself, and not one that could only be controlled by others.

Injustice is equally vile, whether its one person or many persons.

Progress is not an accident but a necessity.

The hero worship is most developed where there is no well-developed respect for human freedom.

All science is prevision.

Composure, as everything develops through exercise. Who wants to rule the passions in adulthood, must learn this in my youth.

The right thing to do we can not usually due only to lack of will, not lack of knowledge.

Patriotism in the national sense is the same as selfishness in the sense of individual; both, in fact, derive from one source and bring a uniform disaster. Respect for their society is a reflection of respect for yourself.

No age is not able to write its own history.

The time will come when you will be surprised that could ever exist people who are able, not working, to enjoy at the expense of those who worked without enjoying.