12 Brilliant Quotes by Herbert Spencer on the Fallacies of Statism

"If in" personal affairs, where all the conditions of the case were known to me, I have so often miscalculated, how much oftener shall I miscalculate in political affairs, where the conditions are too numerous, too widespread, too complex, too obscure to be understood" I am struck with the incompetence of my intellect to prescribe for society."

-Herbert Spencer, 1853