Quote#Money & Wealth
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the…
Quote byHerbert Spencer · 1820–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Social Statics (1851), Pt. III, Ch. 25 : Poor-Laws.
English (original)
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
— Herbert Spencer
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