Herbert Spencer Quotes about Progress

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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Herbert Spencer

Progress, Accidents

'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 1, ch. 2, 4

Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

Herbert Spencer

Men, Progress, Slavery

"Social Statics: Great Essays".

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spencer

Civilization, Progress, Definite

"First Principles", Chapter XVI. Par. 138; also Chapter XVII. Par. 145, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 241-42, 1922.

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

Herbert Spencer

Equality, Men, Progress

Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.198