Herbert Spencer Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Law, Evil

• Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Revenge, Sacrifice, Men

  Herbert Spencer (1910). “Works: The study of sociology”

• All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Light, Organization, Evil

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.73

• Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

  Herbert Spencer

  Evil, Disappear

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.51, VM eBooks

• 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.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mean, Government, Evil

  Herbert Spencer (2014). “The Right to Ignore the State”, p.6, The Floating Press

• We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.

  Herbert Spencer

  Evil, Soul, Forget

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.3

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