"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."

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Source : Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.461

Herbert Spencer

#Hero Quotes #Political Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
“Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.”
“Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”
“Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.”
“God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.”
“Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.”
“Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.”
“What do you say to taking chances?”

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