Herbert Spencer Quotes About Aggression

Quotes about: Aggression

• Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Sin, Aggression

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.47, VM eBooks

• Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

  Herbert Spencer

  Host, Committed, Aggression

• Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.

  Herbert Spencer

  Courage, Self, Risk

  Herbert Spencer (1874). “The Study of Sociology”, p.202, London, D. Appleton

• What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.

  Herbert Spencer

  Powerful, Men, Rights

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.125, VM eBooks

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