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The society exists for the benefit of its members not its members for the benefit of the society.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
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Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
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Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced mirage.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
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I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.
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We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
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