5 Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes on Society

Thomas Henry Huxley quotes on society

14. That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

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17. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year, has its application to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.

29. Social progress means a checking of the cosmic, process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.

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50. The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

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64. 'The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.'

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