233 Quotes by Herbert Spencer

"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."

"Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines."

"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"."

"Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all."

"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."

"A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance."

"Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization."

"We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced."

"Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him."

"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."