Herbert Spencer Quotes about Evil

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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

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

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

Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

Herbert Spencer

Evil, Disappear

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

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