Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Quote by Herbert Spencer
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Herbert Spencer Quotes
- Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
- The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- 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.
- The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- Science is organized knowledge.
Best Quotes
- I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.