The Study of Sociology Quotes

“The belief in the innate virtues of constitutions is as baseless as was the belief in the natural superiorities of royal personages.”
― Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology

“.. if the thing denied is the possibility of reducing Sociology to the form of an exact science; then the rejoinder is that the thing denied is a thing which no one has affirmed. . . But so far as there can be generalization, and so far as there can be interpretation based on it, so far there can be science.”
― Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology

“Generation after generation the honest and independent, not marrying till they had the means, and striving to bring up their families without assistance, have been saddled with extra burdens, and hindered from leaving a desirable posterity; while the dissolute and the idle, especially when given to that lying and servility by which those in authority are deluded, have been helped to produce and to rear progeny, characterized, like themselves, by the absence of mental traits needed for good citizenship.”
― Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology