Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Herbert SpencerAbsolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
Herbert SpencerThe most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Herbert SpencerFeudalism, 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 SpencerAny piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.
Herbert Spencer