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.
More Quotes from Herbert Spencer:
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.Herbert Spencer
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
It was remarked to me...that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.
Herbert Spencer
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Accident Quotes, Law & Regulation Quotes, Perfection Quotes, Progress QuotesBased on Keywords: beneficent
The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.
Jean Claude Duvalier
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle
Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
Arundhati Roy