Quote #19
The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy is worse than any other tyranny we suffer under.
More from Herbert Spencer
- Every cause produces more than one effect.
- Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
- Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
- Music must take rank as he highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
- The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the powers of expressi…
- We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneou…
- Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partl…
- The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have usually been wrong, must not blind us to the complementary fact that majori…