Herbert Spencer Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Every cause produces more than one effect.”

“Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.”

“The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.”

“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.”

“Government is essentially immoral.”

“Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.”

“Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.”

“People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.”

“The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.”

“Science is organized knowledge.”