Quote

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Herbert Spencer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
Anthropologist
Botanist
Economist
Journalist
Philosopher
Psychologist
Sociologist
Writer
Derby
Derbyshire
Spencert
Gerbert Spencer
Results
Foolish
Shielding
Politics
Silly
Foolishness
Result
Fools
Political
Ultimate
Propaganda
Men
Fool
Libertarian
World
Effects
Folly
Humor
Fill
Liberty
Aging

More quotes by Herbert Spencer

Image
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
Herbert Spencer
Image
An 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 Spencer
Image
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
Image
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
Herbert Spencer
Image
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
Herbert Spencer
Image
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Feudalism, 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 Spencer
Image
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Policeman are soldiers who act alone soldiers are policeman who act in unison.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
Image
The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expression fully responded to the state of feeling, would unconsciously use that variety in the mode of presenting his thoughts, which Art demands.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
Herbert Spencer
Image
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer
Image
It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Herbert Spencer