No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert SpencerOf all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
Herbert SpencerAn argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert SpencerConservatism 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 SpencerAnd yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!
Herbert Spencer