Herbert Spencer Quotes

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Regardless of any thing that I've done that people might think, 'Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,' that's not how it works.

There's this whole sense of judgment and who's right and who's wrong and who's moral and who's going to be punished.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

Intentions don't matter. It's the end result we're all judged by. Evil in the name of good is still evil. And when you dance with the devil, you seldom get to pick the tune.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

Some things come with their own punishments.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."