The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert SpencerIt must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
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 SpencerLet men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.
Herbert Spencer