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.
The 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.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
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.
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
All socialism involves slavery.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
Science is organized knowledge.
Education is preparation to live completely.
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.
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