The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
Herbert SpencerThe law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.
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 SpencerThe idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
Herbert Spencer