Auberon Herbert Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?”

“There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.”

“I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.”

“If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.”

“How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.”

“The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.”

“The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.”